In Worlding Women, on page 9, Pettman says that "the state is the main organizer of the power relations of gender through its legislation and policies." So does this mean that the state is responsible for organizing "men's disembodied political sphere and women's sexualised domestic one, reflect[ing] the saturation of the female but not male body with sex" (8)? Or do you even agree? Pettman also points out that "it is often agents of the state, especially police and military, who are major abusers of women's rights" (10) and that "not all men were admitted to public power, but all men were admitted to sex right, to women's unpaid labour, sexual services and reproductive powers--to women's bodies" (7). How do these two statements relate? Are these truths in our own lives or has the "state" improved any in overcoming the sexualization of women? Finally, how does the relationship between women and the state in Scandinavian countries claim to overcome this? (Pettman mentions this on page 11, and during the Feminist Politics conference, in the "Liberalism and its Others" panel, Hirdman discussed gender equality in Sweden at length, if anyone remembers.)