Ujwala--

Thank you for your note.

When I read the terms that Prof Constantine quoted this is how it goes  
in my mind:  women = poor, black, disabled.

GIVE US A BREAK!!

Maybe some of you know the 1/2 brain research.  This shows that in the  
2  children studied (Immordino-Yang) recently many human qualities were  
still present.  This reminds  me, painfully, these days, that much of  
the world out there considers women half-brained.

Andrea

On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Ujwala Samant wrote:


> Thank you for not discussing the Nobel prizes,

> especially Doris Lessing. More racist and unfair than

> them is harder to accept in this day and age. There is

> literature, revolutionary literature, peace activists,

> outside of the narrow band of people who seem to

> receive them. Unfortunately, they lack the marketing

> and lobbying that the winners seem to have.

>

> With thanks,

> Ujwala

> --- Andrea Wilder <andreawilder at comcast.net> wrote:

>

>> No, I'm not going to talk about Doris Lessing, who

>> got a Nobel prize.

>>

>> This is about the female professor (Black American)

>> who had a noose

>> hanging from eh office door...

>>

>> "As an undergraduate and master's student at Xavier

>> University in New

>> Orleans, Dr. Constantine noticed that psychology

>> textbooks tended to

>> lump WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE AND DISABLED

>> PEOPLE under the

>> umbrella 'disadvantaged populations'."  (p.A23)

>>

>> Then--"I want to be able to change some of the

>> text."

>>

>> So...should we women have our own list serv?

>>

>> Andrea>

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