Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:10:54 -0700
From: Patrick Crosby <pcrosby-AT-ieee.org>
Subject: Correction: El Salvador not Costa Rica


In my previous posted, I said Costa Rica when I should have said El Salvador. My
comment was based on a story I heard on Amy Goodman's program, "Democracy Now" a
year or so ago. These women, who produce all sorts of high priced designer clothing
for the US market, work under horrible conditions and are actually beaten by their
supervisors if they do not work quickly enough.

Patrick Crosby wrote:

> Well, if you happen to think "the issues of the age" are "date rape, wife
> battering, the glass ceiling, the second shift, sexual harassment, the matrix
> of domination, etc. etc. etc.," then perhaps these "vibrant" feminist
> sociologists have something to say to you. I have no argument with that; these
> are real concerns to many people. I, however, happen to think "the issues of
> the age," in the US at least, are the health care crisis, homelessness,
> globalization (which, among other things, involves women in Costa Rica working
> for 31 cents/hour to make $150  Liz Claiborne Jackets), global warming,
> corporate corruption (e.g. the Enron/Anderson fiasco), the "Patriot Act," US
> support for right wing oppressive governments abroad, the spread of weapons of
> mass destruction, the drug war (which in reality is more of a war against
> African Americans), former US Presidents getting rich off the arms race, former
> first ladies (one in particular who once said she "hated" Eleanor Roosevelt)
> getting rich off the "privatization" of the US prison system, and the US
> Supreme Court's recent usurpation of the people's right to elect it's
> president. If this make me an "old fashioned white guy," that I submit points
> not to a problem with me or others who share my concerns, but to the
> shortsightedness and shallowness of those who would make the charge.
>
> Deborah W Kilgore wrote:
>
> > At 04:43 PM 5/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Extremely interesting link. In it, Patterson not only gives a nice capsule
> > >summary of Reisman's career, but points to some very troubling voids in
> > >the American cultural scene, and some even more troubling ways in which
> > >these voids, created by the abandonment of academic social thinkers, are
> > >being fulfilled by the likes of Limbaugh, Schlessinger (a.k.a. Dr Laura),
> > >Oprah, and the rest.
> >
> > Patterson ignores a vibrant community of feminist sociologists who are
> > public intellectuals engaging in the exact kinds of thinking and research
> > that he imagines died with the old white guys.  Feminist public
> > intellectuals have also "[given] the nation a vocabulary" with which to
> > discuss the issues of the age:  date rape, wife battering, the glass
> > ceiling, the second shift, sexual harrassment, the matrix of domination,
> > etc. etc. etc.
> >
> > American women go completely unnoticed in Patterson's old fashioned
> > analysis.  Thank goodness his analysis is not representative of the
> > everyday life of the field of sociology.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Deborah Kilgore, Ph.D.
> > Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
> > Iowa State University
> > N232 Lagomarcino Hall
> > Ames, IA  50011-3195
> > (515) 294-9121, dkilgore-AT-iastate.edu
> >
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