Sheila Capitalist Quotes

their bodies seemed to be a battlefield" between the values of the west, the "'capitalist' construction in which female bodies are 'sexualized, objectified, thingified' and the traditional in which women's bodies were 'chattelized,' 'propertized,' and terrorized as trustees of family (sexual) honor." (P. 524) Lama Abu-Odeh

While Soviet political leaders held certain assumptions about trade, notably that the profit-driven capitalist market was evil and the resale of goods for more than the purchase price constituted a crime (“speculation”), they gave little advance thought to what “socialist trade” might mean.

All of which was fine, as long as you didn’t seek some deep meaning in an inherently capitalist enterprise. In retrospect, it’s embarrassing that it took so long for me to see The Goddess Effect for what it always was: a business.