Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:03:40 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: "womanist" vs. "feminist" cite



From the first story in _Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror_

by James Hynes (1997), p. 6; Paul and Elizabeth have taken their cat in to

the vet's to try to discover why she's been missing the litter box.



Paul [was] certain that she'd scoff--politely--at the vet's

suggestion [viz., to consult a cat psychic]. If anything,

Elizabeth had less patience with this sort of New Age occultism

than Paul did. It smacked of the sort of essentialist, nurturing,

womanist stuff she reviled gleefully and at great length in her

own articles on feminist theory.



(If you're wondering, they DO consult the psychic, who interviews the cat

and immediately determines that her urinary incontinence results from the

periodic appearance of a strange woman [the one Paul is having an affair

with, as it happens]. Womanist, shwomanist!)



--Larry