At 09.13 -0700 98-04-22, Mary Bryson wrote:
>I wonder what "feminist" is a code name for?
Yes, one wonders.
and "dominated (the session)"... hmm... there sure were many of those
clearly femiNINE Brysonian laughters, in very Brysonian places (making
surrounding silence very audible).
But.
What I heard -- apart from the presentations, that is -- was some
persistent raising of the political aspects of educational research. Bryson
being, for sure, the number one questioner, with Ricardini(?) of Puerto
Rico a good second, and Matusov for the bronze medal.
The questions... basically the "why are we doing this?, and for whom?" --
in less abstract and de-politicized words than mine -- were naturally
difficult, disturbing, painful.
Indeed, when I try to raise them in connection with my own work the result
tends to be I'm paralyzed.
So that may be what "feminist" has come to be the anaesthetic code word for?
Eva