nadel@malibu.aero.org (06/28/89)
I just read Robyn Rowland's book _Women Who Do and Women Who Don't Join the Women's Movement_ and would recommend it highly to anyone interested in a reading a number of perspectives on feminism. The introductory section discusses the history of modern feminism and some of the major issues feminism attempts to address. The heart of the book is Part II which consists of essays by a number of women (I think 24 but might be remembering wrong) about their feelings about feminism and how they came to their decisions about the women's movement. Women included come from a variety of backgrounds and hold a variety of opinions on the women's movement. The book is limited in coming from an English-speaking perspective (North America, Australia, Britain) but does include some women of color. The final section of the book is a summing up of the views and, more importantly, why people hold those views. Rowland's goal is to show that women on both sides of feminism may have more in common than they think they do. I'm not sure it succeeds at that but it does go some way towards highlighting that the "other side" may give different priorities to various issues and that this affects the conclusions that individuals reach. Miriam Nadel -- mi gloria es vivir tan libre, como el pajaro del cielo |tittle@ics.uci.edu no hago nido en este suelo, donde hay tanto que sufrir |tittle@uci.bitnet y nadie me ha de seguir, cuando yo remonto el vuelo |..!ucbvax!ucivax!tittle --jose hernandez, _martin_fierro_, 1872