Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:01:36 +1200 From: john.morss-AT-stonebow.otago.ac.nz (John Morss) Subject: Re: becoming-man >On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Bryan Alexander wrote: > >> I introduced D+G to a group of friends, a few years ago...... >>Some of them were really annoyed at some of the language >> in ATP: "becoming-woman" needed extensive background+Braidotti, and even >> then remained crawstuck without "becoming-man"; this sounds like swallowing the poison and the antidote at the same time. 'becoming-man' makes a nonsense of 'becoming-woman' doesn't it? (it's like: every time you attack 'patriarchy' you should attack 'matriarchy' as well to keep things balanced)... >>the war machine repulsed >> our committed pacifists. ditto. is anything more dangerous than naivety? (I don't mean pacifism is necessarily naive, but that kind of reaction to d+g seems naive to me).. >> I was struck by the weird tension between this offended reading... and yet 'offended reading' seems a highly appropriate response to d+g.... btw; what does 'outdated' mean (in the previous posts)?? fwiw JRM John R Morss Senior Lecturer Education Department University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin NZ tel (0)3-4798809 [home phone 473-9977; from May, (03)472-7899] fax (0)3-4798349 john.morss-AT-stonebow.otago.ac.nz http://education.otago.ac.nz:800/
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