Re: Pauline Leet?

On Friday 12 April 2002 08:50, Amelie Zapf wrote:
> Hi Eva, KDE-women,
>
> > in the heated discussion on KDE-Cafe the name of Pauline Leet was
> > mentioned. I never heard about her. Can anyone tell me more?
>
> not really, google looks very unpromising. There's 3 hits, a pastor's
> guestbook, an announcement of a speech her husband's gonna deliver & an
> incredibly large PDF about interfaith ministries. Not so helpful, huh?

Not really...

It was actually Bob Rea who mentioned Pauline Leet not Tink. Here is what he 
said that made me curious:

"And thanks for this discussion. I consider myself a male 
feminist for two reasons. The first is that I was 
introduced to primal modern feminism by one of the original 
people. In college i was involved in the civil rights 
movement in the USA. When I returned to visit two years 
after graduation, one of the older people I knew, a faculty 
wife, sat me down and told me what she had discovered. She 
had seen that women were oppressed much as black folk were 
in US society. She coined a word for it based on the term 
'racism.' namely, 'sexism.' Yes, she was the one who first 
named and described it, Pauline Leet, in 1967. So i learned 
it from the source."

Basically I know only a few famous feminists (apart from many the not so 
famous, but still hard working feminists ;-). The one I know most about is 
the german Alice Schwarzer who's is running a german feminist magazine.

Cheers,
eva

>
> Kind regards,
>
> Amy