Started reading The Women Outside by Stephanie Golden, very fascinating book so far. It's about homeless women. In this chapter she went over the factors that played a part in becoming homeless for the women she knows. This short paragraph really highlights the problem with relying on men and being dependent on a man. Men treat women as commodities that can be discarded at any time. When all your administrative papers, assets and accounts are under your husband's name your security becomes contingent on a man. That is one of the core tenant of the nuclear family. That's why we should encourage girls and women to handle all their paper work by themselves; because what happens when the man you're dependent on leaves you or dies? I think administrative independence is one element of female separatism that isn't often highlighted when we talk about separatism here (at least in my circles) but I think it deserves a spot! Speaking as someone with low literacy when it comes to paper work and bureaucratic language
