I really appreciate your interest in my work.
Regards,
Marilyn
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God, I wish.
What a
thrill to get an email from you, Prof. Friedman! I have just been relying upon your book review of Nussbaum's for a paper on the role of African higher education beyond the labour market. I will send you a pre-print copy of the paper.
Helen
On Saturday, November 23, 2013 10:29 PM, "Friedman, Marilyn" <
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Helen,
Could it be that your colleagues have a sincere concern that "got women?" treats women like a passive substance that people can have or not? Just a thought.
Marilyn Friedman
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Thanks even more for your prompt and collegial reply!
I think the nub of it is to get to the point where the idle and ad hoc maintenance of covert male supremacists as the harbingers of good taste and propriety, constitutes a hostile work environment. But that is revolutionary. Just as revolutionary as MacKinnon and Dworkin being able to convince legislators once in Minnesota that pornography in supermarkets is a constitutional infringement on the free speech of women (namely, it silences them).
Sigh.
I guess Rome wasn't built in a day, is what to say next.
It is pretty amazing that now 'nigger' jokes aren't funny. One day
it won't be polite to snigger and cackle when the issue of women's entitlements and subordination are raised in an otherwise enlightened academic forum, like a Faculty Senate. Because we have been under very strict surveillance to come up to speed in order to be eligible for Carnegie funding and other highly competitive global support for African universities, we at U.Ghana have the gender sensitivity policy in some nominal sense, but no one has a clue how to use it, and more importantly no one much cares to try.
Best,
Helen
On Saturday, November 23, 2013 9:22 PM, Anita Silvers <
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We actually liked the Philosopher poster and have it in several colors, and several sizes. We liked it having less text, and a multiplicity of diverse faces for our students to see.
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Hi Shari,
I'm not sure it's possible to convince people who think something is "weird" that it's not weird! I suppose you could point out how many others agree with you. Sales to date:
"Philosophy - Got Women?" poster: 148
"Philosophy - Where are the Women?" poster: 17
"Philosopher" poster: 36
All my best,
Peggy DesAutels
(past Chair of CSW and
manager of the CSW online store at
http://www.zazzle.com/apacsw )
On Nov 23, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Shari Stone-Mediatore wrote:
Hello,
My male colleagues tell me that that they are happy to make our dept more inviting to female students (which is sorely needed here) and perhaps put up a poster with women philosophers, but they don't like the CSW "Got women?" poster . They think "got women" doesn't say anything meaningful and is "weird." (And they wouldn't like the other posters any better, which, frankly, I think are less meaningful.)
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Shari
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Professor of Philosophy
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
United States
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