[soc.feminism] Ourselves and our Children

jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (03/22/90)

canada@tc.fluke.COM (Galena Alyson Canada) wrote:

> I also recommend "Ourselves and Our Children" to any parent at any
> stage of parenting.

I'd only recommend it to a minute proportion of parents: those with a
college education and a VERY high tolerance for sophomoric sociologese.
There is no excuse for that level of gobbledegook.  There may well be
some useful information there, but I was so repelled by the style that
I never got further than skimming it.

I don't remember this being as much of a problem with "Our Bodies,
Ourselves", but I bet that only sells to middle-class women too.

ps: it is impossible to post directly to this newsgroup from the UK;
    ukc.ac.uk bounces messages saying there is no such user as "soc-
    feminism".  Is there a simple fix for this?

[As I understand this, you need an up-to-date version of rn which understands
moderation and you need up-to-date moderator lists.  In the case of this
newsgroup, the correct address to mail an article to is feminism@ncar.ucar.edu
which will randomly send it to one of the moderators.  Speak to your
local system administrators and find out why postings are not automatically
mailed to that address and whether or not they can fix that.   -MHN]


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