From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:01:30 +0000
Subject: RE: women in the bible



> The thing is these women_do_ have opinions.
> Open a book on women in Latin America and
> see what they really have to say,but don't base
> your opinions on"your experiences".
> Women in Latin America have voices and although
> your perception is that of women marrying young,
> cleaning,cooking,and having babies there's also
> alot of rumbling going on.
> Keri


Similarly with the  Somali refugee women I work with. On the face of 
it with female circumcision, war, rape, pillage and complete covering 
of the face including the eyes, they may look submissive, but there 
certainly are under-currents rumbling there as well. I work at second 
hand  through other Somali women who teach, but after a year or so 
you get to know what's going on. It takes more than a bit of travel 
to be a participant observer.

Also they taught me how to say 'The referee's a bastard' in Somali 
when the World Cup was on, though of course for all I know it could 
have been 'I'm a  patronising white git'...




_as