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From: stever@tektronix.UUCP (Steve Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: resources
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Date: Wed, 24-Aug-83 01:07:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 24 01:07:41 1983
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Some interesting books:

Women in the Military:  An Unfinished Revolution, by Retired Air 
Force Maj. Gen. Jeanne Holm, Presidio Press, '83?, $l6.95.

Thendara House, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW Books, '83, $3.50


Jeanne Holm was the nation's first female general.  It would seem 
that her experiences and opinions would be very relevant to the 
issues being discussed in this group.  I have not read this book, 
but from a newspaper interview with her that I read, her book 
sounds like a valuable resource for those concerned with the 
issue of women's (and men's) roles in modern life.
 
   Just a teaser:

   Holm expects congressional hearings--or court action--this 
fall that will shoot down laws regarding women in combat planes 
and ships....an the removal of restrictions that bar women from 
many military career specialities, plus a change in the draft 
laws to include women.


The second book by Bradley is fiction, but it is a complex 
exploration on the role of women on any world, past, present or 
future.  Bradley is a master at presenting the ever shifting 
ambiquities of relationships, and she does an excellent job here 
also.

*****
I think the real issue for us all to think about is the 
liberation of ourselves (when we so desire) from the preconceived 
roles and/or acquired habits that imprisoned us and do not allow 
us to live life in a fully conscious way.
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