Perspective: Sex strikes have always been about patriarchal power, not women’s rights
By Donna Zuckerberg Donna Zuckerberg is a Silicon Valley-based classics scholar and the author of “Not All Dead White Men.” She is editor in chief of the online classics publication Eidolon. May 17 at 10:38 AM Actress Alyssa Milano this month called for an unusual response to the surge in state-level efforts to restrict abortion rights: withholding sex to exert political leverage. Milano tweeted : “Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy.
Since then, sex strikes have sometimes reappeared in political history, often in radically different social circumstances. The play has been studied and performed for two and half millennia, but until the 20th century, it was considered too raunchy to be translated into English by any but the bravest translators.
As Milano mentioned in her CNN article, sex strikes have been attempted at various points in history, although evidence of their effectiveness is shakier than she lets on. She cites an effort by Iroquois women “in the 1600s” to stop “unregulated warfare” against other tribes, and a 19-day “crossed-legs strike” in 2011 in Barbacoas, Colombia, to get a much-needed road built, among other episodes.
In an extended metaphor in the middle of the comedy, Lysistrata likens statecraft to weaving, as a way of explaining that women are well suited to politics. That was a progressive sentiment when women couldn’t vote. But it’s hard to see Lysistrata as truly radical when her mode of activism confirms and strengthens social norms about gendered behavior.
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