Nina
In order to see what the world would be like if women had emerged as the
controllers of it, we must separate ourselves from the way things are today.
We live in a society that has been developing for thousands of years. The
roles which men and women have been socialized into are so deeply
I agree with Lorraine's analysis of masculinist authorities in this
world. By the way, a feminist Kathy Jones (1993) in her book Compassionate
Authority makes the same argument for Margaret Thatcher. She also
clearly states what feminism is about is deconstructing and
reworking socially cons
tj said the following:
> True, they do not have the access to material goods such as we have, but the
> characteristics of power and corruption are still there.
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> Perhaps the world would be *different* if women had emerged as the lawmakers,
> the controllers, and the political leaders of t
On Fri, 23 Sep 1994, Nina Aguilar wrote:
> I think the world WOULD be better --- for men and women. After all, we raise
> our sons to be better/more nurturing than our fathers and brothers were.
> Like the women in Ireland who united to stop the violencs, like the Palestinian
> mothers who m
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> On Fri, 23 Sep 1994, Nina Aguilar wrote:
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> > I think the w
On the Margaret Thatcher argument: as Christine Sylvester notes, if one
adopts a statistical methodology, one would never try to construct a
generalised proposition based on the outlyer case (that is, perhaps, two
standard deviations from the norm) - and Thatcher (and a few other cases of
leaders
Oh, I'm going to have to disagree about the hypothesis that someone claimed
(sorry, don't know your name - please sign it at the bottom of your post) that
if women were in control, things would be in perfect order (or even better than
they are now). Capitalism is a power issue, it is not a gender
Right-on!
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Michael Golden
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> An example of this outside of the realm of capitalism is shown in the
> documentary _Our God is a Woman_ which is a MATRIARCHAL tribal society wherein
> the women control and dominate over the men much like men have over women.
> True, they do not have the access to material goods such as we