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- From: lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Has the Fight changed before my very eyes?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.013408.16821@ils.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:34:08 GMT
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- In article <misdeva-161192211359@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Devjani Mishra) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.003754.2331@ils.nwu.edu>, lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard
- >Lynch) wrote:
- >>
- >> In article <1992Nov15.135144.2075@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> mpon@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Malcolm Pon) writes:
- >>
- >> [self-description/credentials]
- >>
- >> >Lately, perhaps alerted to it by _Backlash_ (Faludi), I've been seeing a
- >> >lot of new arguments that for some reason we don't need to actively
- >> >pursue feminism, for instance, because apparently all its goals have
- >> >been fulfilled and those of us who continue are just nuts who are
- >> >overcompensating. We are told that the things we used as indicators
- >> >years ago, indicators of our plight and of how bad it had gotten are now
- >> >an indication of our new freedoms.
- >>
- >> I think it would be more correct to say that the nature of the work to be done
- >> has changed. Feminism is no longer the underdog. The ideal of equality for
- >> women is far more universally accepted. Feminists need to change tactics to
- >
- >Whoa, there. When you say "universally accepted", I hope you're
- >restricting your "universe" to just the US (and maybe some parts of
- >Europe). Worldwide, women are generally looking at the the same structures
- >that have lasted thousands of years - forced prostitution, dowry deaths,
- >lack of citizenship and all the rest. Equality is nowhere near
- >"universally accepted".
-
- Actually, I was going to include a parenthetical remark to indicate that I
- *was* speaking of the world.
- Note, however, that the text is "more universally accepted" [an oxymoron, but
- hey].
- I realize that equality is nowhere near universally accepted, but I believe it
- is being accepted in more and more countries, slowly but surely.
- --
- "TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu
-