Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:37:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Erin Prucha <eprucha-AT-sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: A Question Re: Graduate Programs


greetings,

I too have just subscribed to this list....and I have similar desires and
concerns as those expressed below.......If anyone knows anything, or has any
comments, I too am eager to feed this mind that is craving french feminist
theory! 

Thanks,

Erin Prucha
eprucha-AT-sfsu.edu
>
>.......
I just subrcribed to this list a few days ago and have been delighted 
>with the discourse that I've thusly discovered.  I'm sorry to say 
>that my first post here is not some enlightening tidbit or empowering
>insight.  Rather, it is mundane, even survey-ish, question.
>
>At the University of Texas at Dallas, where I am currently enrolled, 
>there is only one professor who can really say that she knows anything 
>about "French feminism".  There are a couple of other professors here who
>might know a little something about Irigaray (and *maybe* Cixous) via the
>"postmodern" discourse or Kristeva via the "psychoanalytic" discourse, but
>that would be about the extent of it.  (And "knowing a little something 
>about it/them" does not necessarily equal "not hostile toward 
>it/them".)  In other words, there is not much here for this hungry 
>little mind of mine about FrFem qua FrFem.  Is this pretty much the 
>norm?  Am I being naive and narrow-minded to even desire such a thing? 
>And if not, please tell me about your (oviously) dream program.
>
>I would be interested in hearing from anyone regarding this question, but 
>I would be *especially* interested in hearing from those in the Southern or 
>Southwestern states, since if I do go elswhere for my PhD, I would be 
>most likely to stay in that area.  (You know, family ties, and all . . .)
>
>Thanks.
>
>Denise Alleman
>
>
>
>     --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
>
>

Erin Prucha
eprucha-AT-sfsu.edu



     --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---