Jeremy Stangroom

In my day feminists dismissed gender as a social construct. I clearly haven't been keeping up.

Before you worry about keeping up, probably best to get to grips with what it means to say something is a social construct. Just saying...

Perhaps it's my understanding of your use of materiality.

I was using the term in Marxist sense (which includes the social relations between people), because rad fem is essentially a class analysis.

Most feminists I knew (and know) had little time for Marxism, particularly the revolutionary feminists.

Well, there are socialist feminists - e.g., MacKinnon's "Toward a Feminist Theory of the State". But obviously there's a big tension between

Marxism & feminism in that the former locates the basis of oppression in our relationship to the means of production. But the materiality...

of class struggle has its analog in how radical feminism conceptualizes gender hierarchy. That's the point. Gender has a material basis, it