Yes, 'class' would be the (often missing) concern.
Why is that? The question is not-quite-rhetorical.
The problem is--and I've struggled for years--is that it's impossible to separate the "legs" and yet it's impossible to try to integrate them all in theory and practice (I speak from a very limited perspective though).
It's hard, mostly because class is such a drag on everything 8-) but I don't think it's impossible! The intersection of the the three has been important to me since I was young and looking for stories about "people like me" -- and found it in the writings of women like Toni Morrison and Gloria Anzaldua (short version: in the 1970s a white working class/poor girl learns class consciousness via writings by people of color via feminism).
The various fan discussions/wanks on race generally leave me feeling that one of my "legs" has been torn off and tossed overboard, Class is almost always brought up, but only in passing. "We should talk about class!" "We absolutely should!" End of discussion.
Or, it's brought up to derail discussion of race, as in "this is *really* about class." The problem is, there's no *real* discussion about class wrt race (and not just working class/poor and race. Ask me why I lost all respect for Carolyn Heilbrun). At least, I haven't seen much (or, any) fannish discussion about where race AND class AND gender overlap or intersect and make things really, really complicated.
Re: I dunno.......
Why is that? The question is not-quite-rhetorical.
The problem is--and I've struggled for years--is that it's impossible to separate the "legs" and yet it's impossible to try to integrate them all in theory and practice (I speak from a very limited perspective though).
It's hard, mostly because class is such a drag on everything 8-) but I don't think it's impossible! The intersection of the the three has been important to me since I was young and looking for stories about "people like me" -- and found it in the writings of women like Toni Morrison and Gloria Anzaldua (short version: in the 1970s a white working class/poor girl learns class consciousness via writings by people of color via feminism).
The various fan discussions/wanks on race generally leave me feeling that one of my "legs" has been torn off and tossed overboard, Class is almost always brought up, but only in passing. "We should talk about class!" "We absolutely should!" End of discussion.
Or, it's brought up to derail discussion of race, as in "this is *really* about class." The problem is, there's no *real* discussion about class wrt race (and not just working class/poor and race. Ask me why I lost all respect for Carolyn Heilbrun). At least, I haven't seen much (or, any) fannish discussion about where race AND class AND gender overlap or intersect and make things really, really complicated.
Anyway, um. Class. 8-)