[soc.feminism] woman-only space...

avery@ncar.ucar.EDU (Avery Colter) (12/02/90)

Matt Austern wrote:

> just an observation that today, in the world we live in, organizations
> like SWE play a different role in society than do organizations like
> the Bohemian Club; that many women's groups exist for the purpose of
> inclusion, not exclusion.  The social context just isn't the same; why
> should we pretend that it is?

I've never heard of SWE being strictly woman-space. The Berkeley
campus chapter has traditionally being very forward in making the male
students aware that they are allowed to join.

There was an assertion of woman-space by NAAFA's Feminist SIG at one
point last year though. Basically they wanted to preserve woman-space
at the SIG's meetings at conventions. I have not heard any protests
from any of the men who'd originally raised questions about it. There
are some, though less, cases of some of the men creating man-space.
There seems to be enough communication in mutual space that having
times for faction-space doesn't bother anyone severely.

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