Re: [*FSFFU*] On Femininity and SF

From: Joanne Striley (striley@NCREL.ORG)
Date: Wed Sep 17 1997 - 08:34:05 PDT

At 11:59 PM 9/16/97 -0400, Janice Dawley wrote:
>Do women still make $.65 to a man's dollar, or has that ghastly disparity
begun to close?

What a fine, utopian idea! Alas the status is still pretty much quo. A
very good summary of many areas of inequality (focusing mainly on Western
women) is *The Beauty Myth* by Naomi Wolf, a nice blood-boiling reminder
lest we think "this stuff can't still happen in the 90s!"

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