Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:58:18 +1300 From: ajmac-AT-iconz.co.nz (Brenda & Tony MacCulloch) Subject: Re: M-PSY: women and mental health Chris, Women have become wary of studies into their behaviour, lifestyles, in fact studies into how they survive in what is often a hostile social environment may not help them but in the long term be used against them resulting in further opression. That is why feminist researchers insist that the women who are the focus of their research own it, have control over what it is used for and why. Self-esteem is an important issue for women but I say again, I am wary of what a heirarchical, patriarchal organisation like the World Federation for Mental Health will do with the information collected. Will it be used to enhance womens sense of well being and freedom or will it be used to further oppress them. Brenda ajmac-AT-iconz.co.nz (from a blustery spring morning in New Zealand --- from list marxism-psych-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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