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From: smann@ihu1g.UUCP (Sherry Mann)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Feminism and a double standard(?)
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Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 14:19:12 EST
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According to Adrienne J. Smith, Ph.D., and Ruth F. Siegel,
Center of Flexible Therapies, Chicago, in a paper -
FEMINIST THERAPY: RETURNING POWER TO THE POWERLESS

	Under constraints of patriarch women resort to covert
	power tactics, using manipulative techniques which are
	nowhere acknowledged as power....Because women have 
	been denied direct access to power, we have usually 
	been described as a group _lacking_ in power....
	In fact, powerless groups do exercise power, but this
	takes on different forms than that of the dominant
	group.  Specifically, the power exercised by women
	tends to be covert, indirect, "ladylike."

	Increasing evidence indicates that the differences
	between the ways women and men express power are
	due to status rather than sex....Lower status people
	use the power of the powerless to influence those who
	are dominant over them.  Women, who are low status
	people, "get what they want" through indirect, covert
	influencing techniques, often using the assigned sex-
	role appropriate behaviors of helplessness, dependency,
	coyness and appeal to emotions.

There's more, and I realize this doesn't answer anyone's questions,
but perhaps adds more information to the discussion.  Would be
interested in reactions.

	Sherry Mann
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