The Traffic in Women

My favorite thing about the reading was how Rubin pointed out the places in other writer's (men) pieces where they discussed the roles of women without directly saying certian things. Intentional or not, this showed how women were just cast aside and separated into their own category as opposed to being included with the men. Even Marx had places where he spoke separately on women. One would think, "What does gender have to do with economic systems?" The point is that its just the way things were, not that it was anything special. She needed to point out the current system in order to have the possiblity to redifine it.