i forwarded the posting on mary daly, so jane isn't reading your response.
i did not post the message to start a debate, only to enlist the help of
sympathetic readers, and hopefully, writers. this is a very contentious
topic and my experience is that while discussing it sometimes opens up new
perspectives, it too easily falls into the traditional, academic arguments.
i do want to say that the issue is _not_ about knowledge, but rather about
access to learning, to ways of knowing. there are hundreds of
empirically-based studies that show that patterns of discourse in mixed
gender groups fall into the (what gets identified as) male pattern. i
personally have very mixed feelings about separatism of any kind, but i
also believe in the value of diversity and supporting alternatives to any
dominant discourse.
until we overcome our fear of difference, how can we treat different
people compassionately?
kathie
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start all over.
start all over.
we need to make new symbols,
make new signs,
make a new language,
with these we'll redefine the world
and start all over.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^tracy chapman:new beginning
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Katherine_Goff who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu
http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~katherine_goff/index.html