If you want to read the whole article, the cut and paste really works!
Sorry I seem so thrilled, it was my first time.
If you don't want to go to the whole article, I just want to add one
thing. Mary Daly specifically does not want men in her classrooms, she
doesn't refuse to teach men. Any man who wants what she has to offer can
and has taken independent studies with her. She feels that if anything
the men get more of her time than the women do. Daly believes that men
detract from what she has to share with women in the classroom setting.
Yes, maybe this sounds a lot like "men can't think about physics when
women are in the room", but this is not the same as profs who deny their
expertise to students based on their gender.
On a personal note, I believe that we have enough teachers and students in
the world to insure that various styles of learning be available. What
works for one person, may or may not work for another. Why the search for
one truth?
Randi Zimmerman
"In the process of infinate beginnings, even immortality is mortal."
-- Trinh T. Minh-ha
Here's an article recommended to you by Linda McAlister
from The Boston Globe Online [ http://www.boston.com/globe ]
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The following story appeared in The Globe Online:
Date: 02/25/99
Headline: At BC, class divisions
Story Intro:
After 25 years of teaching women-only classes at Boston College, Mary Daly, a
renowned radical feminist philosopher with a history of sparking controversy, received
an ultimatum from college administrators: Accept male students or stop teaching.
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If you're interested in the rest of this story point your
web browser to:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/056/metro/At_BC__class_divisions+.shtml
(You can easily copy and paste the URL above into the
location line of your browser.
