YES! YES! YES! I couldn't agree with you more! Let me first say that I
am biased in this regard, for the things you have noted here act as part
of the reason that I have become disillusioned with my position in
academia (as a graduate student) as of late, altho' these are issues which
our social action org. have been, and are, attempting to address by
bringing
in (to campus and our community) women who challenge the elitist notion
that one must have a
degree in order to engage in resistance and resistance movements, as one
example.
It saddens me that one's "legitimacy" has become conflated with one's
degree or lack thereof, and it is this kind of elitism (among other
things) that gives feminism (Western/US feminism and feminist movements
in
particular) quite a bad name.
Jessica
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jessica,
>
> I have also noticed, perhaps you have too, the way in which women who don't
> have college degrees, working class, poor, immigrant, disabled and older women
> (unless they are some notable personality in the movement) are often left out
> of the discussions of feminism as direct speakers, instead of the spoken for
> population
>
> The ideology for some, becomes so elitist that to be feminist you have to cite
> your university degree, institution affiliation.
>
> Today there was an international women's day luncheon in manhattan - $100 per
> ticket. The women unable to, or unwilling to, pay that much held a free
> celebration outside. I wonder if the organizers of that luncheon were aware of
> the irony to have such an event, priced out of the range of many women.
>
> Nicole
>
