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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:01:54 -0500
From: Rinita Mazumdar <rmazumda-AT-gettysburg.edu>
Subject: Re: Intersting: Orientalism Working Again?


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>Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:39:10 -0500
>To: Rinita Mazumdar <rmazumda-AT-gettysburg.edu>
>From: "Janet M. Powers" <jpowers-AT-gettysburg.edu>
>Subject: Re: Intersting: Orientalism Working Again?
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>Of course!  That's why I went into Indian Studies and also into
>teaching African American Literature!  I'm a big, bad Orientalist!
>But I'm also curious and willing to be instructed in the proper ways 
>of thinking, despite my unreconstructed attitudes.  
>
>At 01:12 PM 11/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>In my Global Feminism Class students are coming up with interesting topics
>>for their final research paper:
>>1) FGM
>>2) Dowry
>>3) Sex-trafficing in Thailand
>>4) Women in LAtin /America in the workforce,
>>
>>All are good topics and we are working on it.
>>
>>I asked if anyone is interested in working on `Poverty In The US' 
>>and I had sources for them and they did not want to
>>(it is not interesting)
>>  Is this a kind of `Orientalism' working here again, where you inquiry
>>into the other to validate your own subject-constitution?
>>
>>
>>Rinita
>>
>>
>>
>
>"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."  Mahatma Gandhi
>Janet M. Powers (Jan)
>Global Studies Coordinator
>Associate Professor
>    Interdepartmental Studies
>     and Women's Studies
>Gettysburg College
>Gettysburg, PA 17325
>717-337-6790
>http://www.gettysburg.edu/~jpowers/janmae.html
>
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