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Wednesday, February 13, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Peggy Billings, Lawrence junior, took the course last fall. She said it was a very valuable class.
"There is a distinct link between the oppression of women and the dominance of religion," she said.
Course examines women's history
By Sarah Davis
It sounds like a new horror movie, but it is really the name of a course offered through the department of women's studies.
From Goddesses to Witches
Kansan staff writer
women."
Lisa贝蒂, visiting assistant professor of women's studies and western civilization, said the course was not just about those two topics.
"We treat all aspects of women's lives in the Middle Ages," she said. We try to see if there's a relevance of her experiences early what has happened now with
Bitel said the rise of Christianity influenced the status of women.
Leslie Murphy, Lenessa senior, said the main reason she took the course was because the title sparked her interest.
"What has kept me in the class is her teaching style and the content of information she is exposing to," she said.
Murphy said she liked the ideas brought up in class about women.
“It’s turned out to be a great history course on women,” she said.
“It’s a very broad introduction into women's history.”
And that is what Bitel teaches the
"It's the history of women, and man's views of them, from prehistoric times until the reformation," she said. "We look at how different, distant and foreign past cultures were."
"I thought it was one of the most interesting courses I've ever taken," Billings said. "It's the only history course I've taken that has focused on it and gained a very valuable perspective on the oppression of women."
Bitel said there were two main themes she touched on in the course. One theme is women's experiences in the sex industry. Another theme is women's texts to find out about women.
40-member class
"I decided we had to start with a pre-Christian period at a time when people worshiped more female deities," she said.
Auction bids protested via fish giveaway
The Associated Press
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — A commercial fisherman decided he'd rather give his latest catch away than accept extremely low bids at an auction, and yesterday he started handing out 52,000 pounds of fish.
John Garcia, owner, operator and captain of New Bedford-based ship The Covered Wagon, gave away up to 25 pounds of fish per person at the facility. He even provided bags for people to carry their free catch home.
By midday, more than 1,000 people had picked up a load of the fish, and at one point a line stretched from The Covered Wagon, tied to the end of the pier, about 250 feet up to the main street along the New Bedford water-
An elderly gentleman, rushing to the scene, asked in broken English, "Where's the free fish?" When informed where he should go, he said, "Oh, thank you, that's my supper tomorrow."
Garcia said he was giving away the fish because he was upset by the low prices he was offered at the fish market and that to the New Bedford Seafood Exchange.
"Years ago, everybody got the same price," Garcia said.
García said dealers told him Friday they did not like the quality of his fish and cut the price per pound. The customers again bid low on his latest catch.
García said he was usually offered at least 15 per pound for large yellow tail founder, but Monday dealers bid 55 cents. He said the normal bid price for haddock was $1 per pound, but he was offered 12 cents per pound.
"You see, they want to put me out of business," Garcia said. "If they don't buy, I give it all away."
Garcia said the dealers questioned whether his catch was fresh.
There was no response yesterday from the Seafood Exchange, where auctions take place in the early morning.
In the trenches
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Patty Whatley, Lawrence resident, and her son Tony look at fossils while playing under a tree behind Snow Hall. With unseasonable temperatures in the low 60s, yesterday was tailor-made for outdoor activities.
Quebec will stay Canadian, leader says
The Associated Press
TORONTO — Canada must be restructured, not dismantled, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said yesterday.
"Canada is not up for grabs," he said in a luncheon speech to the Empire and Canadian Babies. "Either you can do it or don't. You can I have it both ways."
His remarks come as debate continues regarding whether largely French speaking citizens within Canada will try to break from the Canadian
Mulroney says division would be disaster
confederation
Mulroney said that he was aware of the way some people in Quebec felt about remaining in Canada, and that they are not doing so in the way the confederation worked.
But he added, "Several basic principles must be respected."
He said changes had to be economically sound. They must be practical, ensure pensions and health care and
establish equal rights for all.
establish equal rights for all. The prime minister said there was anger on both sides of the debate.
"We have to be alive to the sense of deep rejection felt in Quebec at the failure to ratify the Meech Lake accord," he said of the measure rejected in June.
The proposed constitutional amendment would have given provinces special powers and would have
recognized Quebec as a distinct society within Canada. The dispute concerning the accord revived independence talk in Quebec, but New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Manitoba opposed Meech Lake.
Mulroney said: "I know that many Canadians are fedited by repeated suggestions from some in Quebec to lighten the night nothing but misery to the nation.
"But it's time to stop bandying around statements like, 'Let them go,' or 'Quebec is already gone, so we must negotiate the separation agreement.'"