Thanks for your mailing Kath, I'm sorry if my message appeared angry, it
wasn't supposed to be. My main point is that you put on some outstanding
courses/speakers and who gets to attend, mostly the wealthy. Emancipatory
knowledge (Bly excepted) should be democratised, not locked up. A criticism,
of course, which can be levelled at academia. I can send you a paper I wrote
on Bly and the men's movement if you like, which hopefully goes some way to
deconstructing his stories.
Cheers,
Richard
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 6 11:47:22 1997
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 18:47:05 GMT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kath Dalmeny)
Subject: RE: Robert Bly's misogyny
Dear Richard,
We're constantly working on the problem of finding sponsorship so that it
isn't just the wealthy who can have access to the material taught here.
That's very important both to our mission of promoting sustainability, but
also, importantly, to the individuals who work here. Luckily, we continue to
be supported by funders who offer scholarships to people from the Third
World, from Eastern Europe and, more recently, to activists in Western
nations (often impoverished NGO workers). We'll carry on searching out the
funders! I always enjoy spending other people's money!
I'd be very interested to see your paper on Robert Bly. I must admit that
I'm not very familiar with his work. I'm more interested in the ecological
economics and development issues end of things... but I'm always up for new
ideas. And there are other people here who know more about his work who, I'm
sure, would also be interested to see it.
Best wishes,
Kath
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