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ma: FEMINIST'S PERSPECTIVE by Joann Leake & Swan

()1 Thursday: Jan- a series of lectures entitled .umving'lhe malityl Women . In Modern Society" was opeed with a lecture given by

present society. Emphasis will be placed on the rmiversity female popu- lation & the relevance these current issues have for them.

Perhaps one bof the most crucial statements made

Dr, Margaret Fulton, President ThurSdaYr as we saw it.

of Mormt St. Vincent university. Dr. Fulton, as stated by the lecture moderator, Dr. Elizabeth percival, is the only fe- male university president in Canada. She is amadian educated and teaches a course ~ "women in Literature", at Mount st. Vincent. In addition to her academic duties, Dr, Fulton is active in varlOllS organizations of the women's movement in mada. Her lecture was entitled "The Limitations on Weren's Development in the Modern Worl ".

We will begin a series of articles dealing with both the lecture material of guest speakers, such as Dr. Fulton, in the lecture series, as well as related concerns in, our examination of the status of weren in our-

was Dr. Fultcn's clari- _ fication of what exactly it means to be a feminist. Many misconceptions surrounding the word "feminist" tend to detract from the exact nature of feminist ideology. As Dr. Fulton explained "even ' today the question is asked, what is a feminist?" It is ' best described by .an American Feminist, Juliette Mitchell, in Psycho-Analysis and Feminism, as 'a person who recognizes that waren are discriminated against simply because of their sexl' What this means

basically is that a feminist

can be either male or female; belief in and

‘ support of the feminist

cause is not restricted to either sex. You only have to realize that there exists such discriminatory practices in society today, which, we

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might add, are not just re- stricted to women. In order to change such

them still want to be pro- vided for and protected by men; they dream of

practices, the general public being Sleeping Beauties

must be made aware of their

existence and ongoing nature.

This consciousness—raising

or Cinderellas, who will be whisked off by Prince Charming and live happily

is of primary concern to such ever after in their pumpkin

organizations as the Status of Women Canada and to indi— viduals such as Dr. Fulton Ignorance of the facts regarding issues pertinent to the Women's Movement is a re- striction on wanen's devel- opment.» Dr. Fulton, for example, expressed her amazement "at hcw unaware our female undergraduates are of the realities of the society of which they are a part. It almost seems that each generation must go on re—inventing the wheel for itself. The experiences of older battle— scarred feminists seem to make no impression on the young, and, in fact, may even turn them off". Even though the average ‘ university co—ed has, in all likelihood, experienced sexual discrimination in one form or another, she seems not to be conscious of the fact that it. is a) a cannon occurance, and b) a shared one. Undoubtedly, as long as unflexible sex role stereotypes are allowed to flourish un— checked, the battle against them will continue. In order to assure that women of future gener— ations will grow up in an atmosphere which allows greater role flexibility, the fight against restric— tions must be taken up by each of these generations at the point where the previous one left off.

In her lecture, Dr.

Fulton 'put forth a pre— ‘

,mise to account for this

, apparent lack of (interest.

"A false submissiveness is the game society teaches them (yOunger women) to play. The majority of

shells. _They have not yet learned that the door slammed on the Doll's House 100 years ago."

But we know that we are not Cinderellas, Sleeping Beauties or Prince Charmings. we are no more metaphors for psychologically destructive roles such as these than we are simple, one-dimension beings. The inherent come plexity of human nature demands a greater social flexibility in roles than we are allowing ourselves presently. If we are not One-dimensional, then why persist in living narrow one—dimensional stereotypes; eg protector and protected? Clearly this indicates an irrational concept within the present structure.

Our first task, therefore, is to enlighten the general public as to the attempts by wcnen's organizations to educate both men and women in the area of human equality and its develcrmemtal progress. and women are equal human beings, but this equality is not established as the result of each sex assimilating the other. According to Dr. Fulton,

‘"Tb be equals, Men and Women must come from posi— tions of equal strength. we cannot assume the-same position. Women cannot beat. men at their own game, nor should we try —- that old power game is not worth playing; what.we have to do is change the rules.

And women, as I've already said, are the catalysts for constructive change in our society". Consrder this column an organ of change, with the concerned women of the UPEI student body as the catalysts.

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