[lit-ideas] Re: The Feminine Technique?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:50:15 +0000
Thursday, March 17, 2005, 5:42:55 PM, Mirembe Nantongo wrote:
MN> Many thanks, Judy, for your comments. Also to Robert for
MN> posting the original Dowd piece. Here's Dahlia Lithwick at Slate
MN> on the same topic:
MN> http://slate.com/id/2114926/
Oh yes -- thank you. I must read the other responses too.
MN> I find this topic particularly fascinating just now for two reasons:
MN> One is my (admittedly sporadic) current reading of feminist
MN> science fiction. I have had great fun with Ursula LeGuin ("The
MN> Left Hand of Darkness", "The Matter of Seggri" etc) and Charlotte
MN> Perkins Gilman ("Herland"). I have the two collections recommended
MN> by Cathy in hand and look forward to those. The question in my
MN> mind was: how different would things be civilizationally if women
MN> designed the context?
I tend to be rather rude about the idea that "more women in politics"
would change things for the better -- there is a literature on that,
yes... but your question is more cosmic.
MN> It's all fascinating reading, I must say, although am still
MN> hoping to run into someone who tackles more contemporary global
MN> issues (eg competition between states/ideologies) in the same
MN> framework. Deborah Tannen's piece fed into this hope,
MN> tangentially, which is why I bring up all this.
I can't actually recommend work now except for (grits teeth, hisses) Jean
Elshtain's (War, IR; Jean Elshtain, who believes women are nicer, has
it in for me, I tell you joyously and snidely, and I am not that mad
keen on her middle/later work). But that's only because I'm in a
rush. I can recommend (or at least, name) the main feminist IR
writers, and will try to post something about it tomorrow. Also you
should look at Carol Gilligan (but, sceptically...).
MN> And the reason I was struck by Deborah Tannen's piece is that
MN> she seemed to be articulating this very difference, but, oddly
MN> enough, between male & female opinion writers in the US, rather
MN> than between Arab & US opinion writers!
Interesting. In a sense, the comparative studies bear out what you
say, in that, differences between cultures on,say, verbal aggression,
can be greater than sex differences within them. But I don't know of
any work on actual writing styles across culture -- yes, interesting
-- I must have a look.
Those sick of hearing me whine
MN> about how tough Arabic is
I'm just sick of being jealous that you're feasting on mutton and
couscous... -- it's been a nasty winter here..
MN> should circle May 31 on their calendar
MN> -- the day of my final exam!!
Oh -- at first I misread that as March 31 and was happy for you -- oh
well, it isn't that long, I suppose. I don't think I could learn
Arabic now, it really is too difficult, I may take the easy option
(easy given my background) and learn Welsh.
and now I must rush; I meant to say something about the adversarial
legal tradition in the US and UK, tomorrow?
Judy
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