Wizard Marks has an encyclopedic (if sometimes imperfect) memory. I believe what she is referring to is a South Minneapolis theatrical production by At The Foot of the Mountain on Rape about twenty years ago. The adaptation was based on a play by Brecht. It was clear that the thrust of the play was that rape was an instrument of a patriarchal power structure meant to keep women in line.
Martha Roth (for more than ten years a regular columnist for Southside Pride and an occasional writer for Pulse of the Twin Cities and now an expatriate in Vancouver) and two other local women edited a collection of essays entitled Transforming a Rape Culture, now in its second edition. But, if I may tempt effrontery to the point of arrogance and try to further decipher Wizard Marks' mind, I think the basic argument she is making is the one first posited by Susan Brownmiller in Against Our Will. That ovacular work (seminal seems out of place) defines rape as standing between theft and assault. It may be the work Mr. Kahn was so disparagingly referring to when he talked of outdated feminist notions. Does that help? Ed Felien Powderhorn REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
