Re: feminism

Jonathan Epstein (epstein@wfu.edu)
Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:34:12 -0400 (EDT)

I meant hit R in Pine.
Sorry.
Christy-
Are not men's roles culturally defined as well?
Is feminism simply the privleging of a specific
"voice" or "text."?
Jon

On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, christy
renee warrington wrote:

> What I understood of feminism is that basically the roles of women are
> completed defined by society but we are so used to them that we take for
> granted that they are real. There is this idea that there are major
> natural differences between men and women that determine there different
> roles, when as is becoming more obvious in today's society, women are
> just as capable to do many things the men do as men. Men do not
> necessarily have to be dominant over women, but since that is the way it
> has been for years and years we take for granted that that is the way it
> is supposed be.
> Christy
>