Judith -- I really do think we are both working for the same goals, and as with any attempt to change society you need people working within the current system to make incremental changes and you need people with a bigger vision. I also think that legislation may change people's behavior, but that it does little to change people's attitudes, which is why we still constantly struggle for an appropriate education for our son Peter, even though the ADA and the IDEA and PL94-152 have been in place for years, and why African Americans still struggle with rampant discrimination and hatred by Euopean Americans and why female college athletes still don't get near the funding and support that male college athletes do. While trying to establish an on-site day care center at my university, we struggled against every conceivable obstacle the administration could put in our way. One of my colleagues took me aside and said "Kathy, you'll never be successful as long as the top administrators don't believe women belong in the academic workforce in the first place." And it took more than 10 years, and a gradual shift of women into a few key administrative posts for the day care center to finally become a reality. I am well aware of the power differentials that impede progress on these issues, and I am glad that there are people working to change by-laws and change legislation and slowly slowly chip away at obstacles. But I also think that the current power differential is upheld and supported every time people go along with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D. email: [log in to unmask] Anthropology Department phone: (409) 845-5256 Texas A&M University fax: (409) 845-4070 College Station, TX 77843-4352 http://www.prairienet.org/laleche/dettwyler.html *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html