alison
There must be alternative ways to regain control/disempower society
other than disowning and diminishing ourselves/other women.
dont you think that there are women out there doing exactly that, women
wheither by choice or not are bringing up families alone and without
financial help .....and i dont mean Tony Blair's ..'single parent
families'.....in my eyes they are more than equal and certainly in control.
Women can have it all family/career if they want to, it isn't easy but it is
possible.
kathrine
----- Original Message -----
From: Alison Hammond <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: child-bearing
> >I am a feminist, or should I say
> >a person that believes all people should be equal.............but don't
we
> >all believe this and if we do not then we should. I think Shulamith
> >Firestone has a valid point in that women will never be equal until the
> >burden of child bearing is removed from women and it becomes an asexual
> >process. then it can no longer be used as a guilt trip to control women.
> >Because child-bearing and the concept of womanhood has been used as a
method
> >of control since the ark.
>
> I'm not sure that women will ever be truly free by trying to become more
like
> men and sacrificing parts of their womanhood in an attempt to gain
equality.
> Equality unfortunately seems to have replaced liberation as 'the' feminist
> goal. The freedom to be different yet equal would seem to be more
desirable
> to me. Eggs and chocolate are very different, but they are both tasty
alone
> and in combination!
> I do agree that child-bearing has been used, and is still used, to control
> women, but although society may lay the guilt trip on us we don't have to
buy
> into it. There must be alternative ways to regain control/disempower
society
> other than disowning and diminishing ourselves/other women.
>
> Alison, woman and feminist.
> Dr. Alison H. Hammond,
> School of Biomedical Sciences,
> E Floor,
> Medical School,
> Queen's Medical Centre,
> Nottingham
> NG7 2UH
>
> Tel. 0115 970 9457 (internal 41457)
> Fax. 0115 970 9259
>
>
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