This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
Famine Within, The (Catherine Gilday, 1993)
The harm caused to Amerikan wimmin by the beauty myth. The majority
of wimmin fear being fat more than they fear dying, for example. Its
shortcomings mirror are the same as the white feminist movement's: no
analysis of class and nation differences among wimmin. It universalizes
the experience of privileged white Amerikan wimmin to all women. Also
doesn't recognize that a situation of economic abundance is a
precondition for problems such as anorexia, and ignores the larger
context of imperialist plunder of the Third World which generates
the relative abundance that creates problems such as anorexia for
Amerikan wimmin.