From: atefeho-AT-vms2.macc.wisc.edu
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 21:56:40 -0600
Subject: Re: readings



Prof. Osage

You must be very lucky, not having experienced the tyrannic attitude of any
women.  
Could this be the start of the debate?  Gender or power/abuse of power
Where is the problem? Are we dealing with a polarized world of Saint (women)
and Evil (men) ?  May be  this is one of the diverging point of  (if we can
categorize it this way ) western and non-western feminism.  What do you all
think? 
Atefeh


At 09:16 PM 11/3/96 +0000, Professor Osage wrote:
>The best place to start with the history of women's resistance would be
>with gathering information about the Amazons.  (amazon is a Greek word
>meaning breast less in English)
>
>The Amazons were basically all women who resisted the onslaught of
>patriarchy for thousands of years.  They are still here today evident in
>at least some of the members of "third world women," who desire to right
>the wrongs of patriarchy.
>
>I would like to suggest the following book for reading which will serve
>as a jump off point for some serious business.
>
>The name of the book is "When God was a Woman" by Merlin Stone.  Any
>woman who read this book will find their eyes opened to the tyranny of
>patriarchy and so seek ways to counter this evil of male superiority.
>
>If you are seeking truth there are many book to use but they are not
>advertised and that is why most books that are useful to women are not
>known to most women.
>
>Or would the group prefer to read Darwin's "Origin of Species" or
>Bancroft's "Native Races"  where you will find information and an
>ancient ritual about baptism of the new born by the mid wife. ( vol. 3
>page 372}
>
>This will help to prove that baptism predated Christianity.
>
>I have nothing against Christianity if it was practiced as preached, it
>is the dishonesty of the practitioners that appalls me.  I my self am a
>Christian who knows that the dead will not come back to life but the
>spirit lives on and that the only foundation of the Christian church is
>the hope that Jesus will return from the dead to save the living.
>
>Kamar Osage
>luvgenie-AT-bellsouth.net
>
>
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