November 22, 2002

Women's Studies 'Where Civil Rights Never Made It'

By VIKI SOADY

My journey to liberate the minds of the women and some men of South Georgia and to lead this largely rural region out of cultural and religious "error" began in July 1995, when I left the Canadian university where I had taught for 20 years to become the first director of women's studies at Valdosta State University.

In so doing, I returned to the state of my birth -- geographically and culturally. Although a native-born Atlantan, I failed to calculate the fact that much more than

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