Please do get Prof Goody in Ghana, to participate if possible: I really
regard her work highly.
Carol
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From: N*** [mailto:vygotsky@nateweb.info]
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 6:31 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: International Women's Day
http://marxists.org/archive/zetkin/index.htm
Mike Cole wrote:
> Monday the World Celebrates International Women's Day. Seems only
> fitting that we alot a bit of our attention to an occasion which seems
> to garner more attention outside of the U.S. then inside.
>
> There are many websites which provide general information on the event.
> For a view from what we northhemispherites call "down under" see
>
> http://www.isis.aust.com/iwd/ or just browse through google.
>
> For a sobering discussion of male violence against women written by
> Esther Goody, and outstanding Anglo-American (or American-Anglo, I
> am not sure which), I warmly recommend her article, available for
> the clicking, at http://lchc.ucsd.edu/Histarch/ap87v9n2.PDF.
>
> The article is entitled "Why must might be right? Observations on sexual
> herrschaft. It was published in the last years of the last millenium, but
> still offers a lot of food for thought.
>
> If people find the article interesting, I could try to get Professor
Goody,
> whose current work is focused in Ghana, to join the discussion.
> mike
>
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