File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1995/avant-garde_Jun.95, message 32


Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 14:57:33 EDT
From: ma-AT-dsd.camb.inmet.com (Malgosia Askanas)
Subject: Re: gender


Alan G wrote:

> Being fairly new to the list, I'm still not always sure how "avant-garde" is
> getting used here. Do folks on the list think of it as a gender-neutral or
> gender-inclusive category? Are the gender dynamics of historical and even some
> contemporary avant-gardes of interest to the list? Or are these things that
> you all take to be pretty much resolved, understood, nothing more to say about
> them? 

I would say that gender issues vis-a-vis the avant-garde are of great 
interest, and nothing about them is resolved or understood.  On the other 
hand, I propose that we not pick on people's mode of expression (if it
is just a mode of expression), in the same way we don't pick on spelling 
or on other things easily corrected by the reader.  One could argue 
that nothing is ever just a mode of expression, but I wouldn't. 


- malgosia 


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