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Carregando... The first stone : some questions about sex and power (edição: 1995)de Helen Garner
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I remeber the events as background to my Honours year. I think Helen Garner gives an interesting insight into how she saw the events at Ormond College and an insight into how many of those involved were effected. It is a easy book to read and reminds us of the effect these events had in Melbourne at the time. As a university undergradute in the 1990s, i can identify with many of the issues that Garner writes about in this book. There was a culture in Australian universities that harrassment was a big issue, and it did occassionally go overboard (the veiwpoint 'that every man is a potential rapist'is one i heard myself more than once)though i think the pendulum is starting to swing the other way again. Garner is a good writer, and manages to take what could have been a very dry subject and bring it to life without making it a rant. There is enough of the personal in this to make it interesting, and the author is quite open in relating her biases. I do feel that occassionally she is a little too histrionic in her retelling of conversations with others, and the story does jump about a bit; but overall the reporting is top class. While things may have moved on in the gender wars in Australia to other battlefields, this book is still important, even if only as an exhibit in the history of Australian feminism. I know that there was a lot of debate generated when it was first published, and i know it made me think through many principles that i myself hold. I hope the next reader is also able to take away something from reading this well written book. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In this gripping non-fiction narrative, Helen Garner delves into the causes and effects of police charges pressed against the Master of Ormond College by two female students who claimed he fondled them at a school function. Two overriding questions trouble Ms. Garner throughout her investigations: why did these students choose to go to the police instead of having the matter settled through the school's private arbitration process, and why, when the Master was found innocent of these charges, was he terminated from his position? The boldness of this searing piece of literary journalism and the resulting furor over its publication in her native Australia forced Garner to rethink her stance on the feminism she had fought so hard and so long to support. The obscured distinction between "sexual harassment" and "violence against women" is at the heart of this story, and we are drawn into it as Garner re-examines her own attitudes and experiences in the light of a powerful drama about men and women today. Eventually, Garner is forced to admit that feminism has become another kind of political fundamentalism, often without a thoughtful and responsible examination of the facts behind media-driven stories. Why, she asks, do both feelings and compassion for the involved parties need to be sacrificed for a doctrinaire political agenda? Does searching for a more mature and ethical framework than was laid down in the rebellious excitement of the '60s mean betraying the "Cause"? Garner asserts that women are not always victims, and the orthodoxy of what feminism has become stands in the way of real political and personal progress. Ultimately, The First Stone is a call for hard-line feminists to grow up and get conscious. It asks for a new kind of feminism based on the cultivation of an individual's power of self-expression, responsibility, and, indeed, exactly the kind of self-discovery her insightful narrative represents. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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