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From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu>
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Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3200] Re: message from Andrea
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Dina has asked me to post this for her:
I read with interest the message you sent over the listserv, which you
identified as one Andrea asked you to send. I have a question about
Point
#3.
It made a reference to women having an increased sensitivity to an
angry raised voice, which it implied had a physiological basis.
If you (or Andrea) could possibly lead me toward some reference (I'm
certainly sympathetic to its absence from short-term memory!), I would
be most
appreciative. Any single place to start would do, and I'd be happy to
report
back if I find it from there.
Thank you so much.
Dina Slesar
Ulster Literacy Association
Kingston, New York
>>> ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu 03/18 12:51 PM >>>
Andrea asked me to post this for her:
Colleagues:
I can't figure out whether or not Laurie's original post made it to
the
list serv, but here is my reply.
My concerns are real concerns, I don't want to spade over the same
tired
ground. Everything has to do with how women perceive their place in
the world,
and particularly their relationship to men. Why is this important?
It is
important because we teach who we think we are.
1) The Larry Summer's (Harvard Pres) imbroglio. I first read
the
report of what he said while sitting at the kitchen table, and it was
a
shock.
Unedited, the article suggested to me that Summers perceived himself
to be in
the middle of a group of men while women existed at the fringes,
edges,
of
his mental universe. In the foothills of his moutain, as it were.
I
imagined
myself as one of Larry's secretaries, looking at him as he came
through
the
office door, knowing that he mentally relegated me to less than fully
human
(male) status--an inferior being.
You can believe I read every report about Summers following this, I
was
so
upset and angry.
Then, by golly, I read a letter posted (with link) on the Harvard
School of
Public Health home page. Among other things it said that women make
up at
that school 31% of faculty members. These are scientists from all
over the
world, who have worked all over the world, whose work is top notch.
2) I also read an issue of Time magazine (March 7) which raised my
spirits still more--"' If you have a man and a woman looking at the
same
landscape, they see totally different things....women can see colors
and textures men
cannot see. They hear things men cannot hear, and they smell things
men
cannot smell.'"
3) From another article--women can be much more reactive to an
angry
male raised voice than men, has to do with their hearing and link ups
with the
amygdala. (Reference deleted from short term memory.)
4) Also, from Parallel Lives (Phyllis Rose) toward the end--a
metaphor of
playing a tennis game: while for men the wind is at their back, for
women
the wind is in their face (social privilege).
5) A book by Griffin (Howard?) published maybe in the fifties ?
sixties?
tells of his transformation into a black man, and his realizaton of
how black
men were treated, in the south particularly, as I recall.
6) Then from an actor--Hoffman? Tootsie? describing how it
felt
to
take on a woman's persona, a shock. to him.
7) Finally, the only causal link in adult literacy is that between
a
mother and her children--with mother's literacy child health improves
and she has
fewer children. (Reduction in fertility is the way this is phrased.)
From
an article on Richard Cash, MD, MPH: "'There has never been
effective
population control through excessive deaths,'" Cash says. "'A clear
drop in the
infant death rate reliably and very quickly brings down the birth
rate.'"
All for this morning.
Andrea
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