The oppression of women has become so interwoven into society that it has almost become engrained into females as “femaninity”. In some way sexuality has been translated into an invisible stamp that lables ability as well as net worth. A woman’s worth thus conotates a material value. A value that is interchangable between hands, particularly male hands.
The worth of a woman is bartered in society, which is her ability to blend into society in order to be an acceptable gift. Rubin really goes into this idea of gift giving. The image of the perfect woman comes to mind, neatly wrapped in smooth tight skin, creases are a bad sign of aging. Inside of the package is the perfect gift; everything a man always wanted. A complaicent, docile person(really automated robot, but softer) that is there just to tend to his very needs.
As Althusser noted, once a persons produce is separated from their labor their worth or wealth is then owned by who they are working for. Therefore, a woman who is separated from her worth and production is doubly oppressed with in a capatalist system. Not only does the ISA program women to always view themselves in relation to an idea of maleness, but what ever it is that they makes is always attributed to that maleness that they seek to serve. So how would one even the playing field. Marx would say instill as system rid of class structure. Rubin says rid the world of the idea of sexuality. If the world were asexual, then there would be no need for the rhetoric used to describe the difference between maleness and femaleness. Those two words in effect would not exist.
Rubin? What happened to Judith Butler?