Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g851cBX10877; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:38:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:38:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <18d.d833e3b.2aa80ea7@aol.com> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2276] Re: How women are viewed in adult X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Mac - Post-GM sub 146 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1512 Lines: 34 I was thinking about this issue this a.m. as I was doing relatively mindless computer shores, then later as I was going to get fresh vegetables at a local farm. I don't remember the numbers, but...in this country most women will work outside the home at some point in their lives. Many will always work outside the home. I used to have (before clipped from my library) the book by Maxine Hong Kingston, "The Woman Warrior." i think the "selling point" of adult literacy depends in large part on the relationship between mother's education and that of her children. Also, and I have I think mentioned this here before, the ONLY causal relationship in the effects of literacy on anything, is that of recently literate mothers raising healthier and fewer children. I don't think it was until this summer that I stepped out on my own as a woman, so what I say above is just a spin-off of that happening. In my experience, the women's movement gave a lot of rhetoric to realities that weren't deeply felt, they were "sound good," or "sound loud," words. I think it is a completely reasonable goal for a woman to be self-supporting. I also think that for me even to put that down as a goal is pathetic--OF COURSE WOMEN SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE SELF-SUPPORTING! Bernard Lewis wrote about the currently fashionable view about the "failure" of the Moslem world because of the neglect of 1/2 of it's population....its women. Well, how about us? More to be said, I've got to go to bed. Andrea
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