Re: AUT: Patriarchy

[Montyneill@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 98-02-01 20:33:03 EST, Katha write:

<<  As for Papua -- well,maybe we should all talk more about places we
 know more about! Monty read an article in harvard news that says Papuan
 women are worse off; I read an article in the Times about a  Papuan (I
 think) girl who got some education and was emboldened to resist the old
 brutal marriage-by- capture custom.   I only went on about India because
 Luther B. mentioned Indian feminists. But I'm happy to stop. >>

No Katha, I read about India in the Harvard mag, put it in because it was
raised. The article on Papua was a detailed piece in latest Midnight Notes by
a long-term resident who has carefully studied WB/IMF policies, effects, and
resistance to them. They cause lots of trouble, intensify other problems,
hardly provide a solution. I already said I concurred that with capitalism
(often by struggles of workers, women, etc.) has come some increased freedoms
I too agree with. But capitalism has made a lot of situations worse. Period.

Monty Neill


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