Hidden From History:


This is the title of a book that the New York Times called ‘an important and valuable achievement’. It addresses social changes since the Industrial Revolution very well I think, as regards to women.


“Marx saw communal domestic economy as presupposing the development of machinery and the use of natural forces, but, like Engels he never envisaged the consequences of contraception. Capitalism was to create a technology which made control over production and over procreation technically but not socially possible. The family was streamlined but patriarchy did not disintegrate completely. The erosion of man’s property in women, and of the ideology of man’s superiority over women, occurred more slowly, too, than Marx imagined. The precise relationship between the continuation of patriarchal authority and the class system in capitalism was left unclear along with the more general problem of the connection between material and ideological structures.


In 1884 Engels’ Origin of the Family Private Property and the State was published. This was an attempt to analyze the oppression of women in terms of the relationship between the mode of production and procreation and the connection between forms of the family and systems of private ownership…


The idea of production in the family being a factor in historical development was subsequently obscured in Marxist thinking. But even in The Origin of the Family the specific form of the influence of ‘the production of human beings’ upon ‘the production of the means of existence’ is left unclear. Also human production is separated from human sensuous experience and feeling. Engels has here substituted a narrow conception of economic relations for a wider definition of material existence…. Monogamy was based on the ‘supremacy of the man’,…� (8)


I have developed this theme throughout many other books as I delve into the Jehovian and misogynistic Mediterranean history that Hellenized and destroyed the prior egalitarian cultures. The loss of soul and equality in ‘men’ is also a large part of what has happened to mankind and other life on earth has suffered mightily in the ensuing Cycle of Violence.

Bit behind the times, aren't you, Rob?
This topic was covered in depth (as HERstory, rather than HIS-story) in some of the courses when I was at Uni. in 1975...........

My books cover the history of the War on Women as a main theme. I deal with the same old same old at many junctures over the past 5,000 year nightmare (James Joyce). The fact that it was covered or taught against (when you say HER story) in school does not mean you understand the sinister 'abortion of the soul' that has been designed around the treatment of women.

As entirely a woman and something of a scholar ( yes, I've read Engels, Weber et al), I EXPERIENCE this, rather than merely observing.

I do more than experience it. I fight it. It is the 'abortion of the soul'.

You fight it? How? With words?
Try countless hours spent working in committees involved in setting up the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, then working to see those requirements are met in the workplace; try acting as Sexual Harrassment Contact Officer for women in non-traditional roles; try acting as Abortion Counselling Officer............and try seeing your status and financial well-being destroyed by a male hierarchy. Then tell me you fight it. Or even that you really understand it.

I have helped thousands in ral ways with my own time and money. I now focus on making books to tell the truth and change the paradigm. I also freely have committed my whole life to living within the group homes and helping the victims of the Cycle of Violence created by aggressive competitive people who have little inkling of what the issues are or the opportunities to address them.