File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-fem_1995/french-fem_Apr.95, message 24


Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 12:49:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: ENGCUBBI-AT-ACS.EKU.EDU
Subject: Re: Political Woman Daily Hotline #1 (fwd)




On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Angela Hunter wrote:

> 
> We need to get away from the sense that there is practice without theory.
> Every action has a theoretical base; french feminist theory comes from
> the base that the site of writing _is_ the site of practice.  So here, where
> we write (about) french feminist theory (or in my case, lurk mostly), why
> is such a schism so willingly imposed?  I would think the more interesting
> question would be how certain french feminists would look at and analyze
> the Political Woman Daily Hotline and the space it creates.  I find it very
> compelling that the Internet is the tool chosen by this organization to transmit
> its message, that writing is its primary tool....


I think what Angela is saying is extremely important and very fundamental.

What is the relationship between theory and practice, esp. when the 
practice has a political element to it? It seems to me that without 
practice the theory seems to become simply a game, a crossword puzzle of 
sorts.  How does feminist theory relate to the lives of women, whether 
American, French, South African, or whatever nationality? Without real 
living women and men interacting we have nothing to form a basis for 
theory. 

I have no answers here. I'm on this list to learn, not because I know all 
that much about the topic. Those of you who are familiar with feminist 
theory and feminist practice, what are the relationships you see?


> 
> angela
> 
> ===============================================================> Angela Hunter                   "forever awakened one comes to join
> Northwestern Univ.              the secret order drenched with
> w: 708/491-7406                       longing to lie down in the
>                                                             bed of no return."
>                                                             --bell hooks
> 
> 
> 

Laurie Cubbison

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