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From: morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.EDU (Jones Maxime Murphy)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Feminism:separate but equal?
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Date: 19 Oct 90 17:57:34 GMT
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A moderator on this group, Miriam Nadel rejected a post of mine with
the comment that "race issues are only of marginal interest to
soc.feminism". I have often heard black women complain that the
feminist movement is insenstive to their concerns.

Is feminism simply a tool for bringing about parity between men and
women, while preserving racial inequality? In other words, is the
program simply to level the discrimination against white women,
leaving blacks behind? I'm particalarly interested in comments from
black women on this issue.

[Race issues with respect to feminism are appropriate; I did not see
the rejected article & so will not comment on its rejection.  This is
a subject, however, like feminism & abortion or feminism & religion,
that easily spins out of the domain of feminism because the second
issue is a large concern in its own right.  --CLT]

Jones
Physics Department
California Institute of Technology