Chapter Summary: Colonization And Housewifization By Marie Mies
Reading through Marie Mies chapter, “Colonization and Housewifization” from “Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale”, she discusses several ways in which the patriarchal division of labor was created violently to force the exploitation of not only women, but other classes and people. With the combination of the technologies attack on Mother Earth, the subordination of women, and the rise of the bourgeoisie, this lead to her example of the witch trials that took over Europe from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. Mies states that, “The witch- hunt… was one of the mechanisms to control and subordinate women… who in their economic and sexual independence constituted a threat for the emerging bourgeois order” (Mies 81). This attack alongside
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This was often an excuse to execute racist agendas, using technology as a way to target poor women of color, just as the white bourgeois did with the poor women in their communities and across Europe. Recently, this was seen in the news by a woman, whose name was not given, that is currently suing the Japanese government for force sterilizing her as a teen. Their reasoning behind it was that under the eugenics law they were under the jurisdiction to sterilize people due to a mental or genetic illness, specifically targeting people with disabilities. This is not the only case of sterilization in recent news, Summer Thyme Creel was recently given a shorter sentence for counterfeit checks in January of last year because she got sterilized, a suggestion made by the judge. As a mother of seven, poor, as well as a previous record the judge insinuated that if she received sterilization procedure, he would shorten her sentence. This case reflects the history of sterilization, not only in America, but throughout the world, where poor women, women of color, disabled people, immigrants, etcs are forced to undergo these procedures as a way for the capitalist patriarchy to control populations, similar to the witch hunts throughout
This was often an excuse to execute racist agendas, using technology as a way to target poor women of color, just as the white bourgeois did with the poor women in their communities and across Europe. Recently, this was seen in the news by a woman, whose name was not given, that is currently suing the Japanese government for force sterilizing her as a teen. Their reasoning behind it was that under the eugenics law they were under the jurisdiction to sterilize people due to a mental or genetic illness, specifically targeting people with disabilities. This is not the only case of sterilization in recent news, Summer Thyme Creel was recently given a shorter sentence for counterfeit checks in January of last year because she got sterilized, a suggestion made by the judge. As a mother of seven, poor, as well as a previous record the judge insinuated that if she received sterilization procedure, he would shorten her sentence. This case reflects the history of sterilization, not only in America, but throughout the world, where poor women, women of color, disabled people, immigrants, etcs are forced to undergo these procedures as a way for the capitalist patriarchy to control populations, similar to the witch hunts throughout