Subject: introduction
From: jaambwa-AT-antenna.nl (Black Women and Advanc)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 96 22:29:29 GMT



MAJORDOMO-AT-JEFFERSON.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU

Hallo and a good day to you,

I am new on your net and I hope to have a constructive encounter.

The subject 'monolithic construct' and (the impact on) our identities are 
nice discussion points; the effects of both influences Black Women in my 
country too in matters of education, employement, equal rights for 
minorities a.s.o.. 
But maybe that is already discussed way back?

I attended the 4th World Women's Conference and as a result of that, I 
felt happy to understand (and with me other Women), that co-operation 
between Women from the South and they who live in the North has become a 
challenge for the future.
Related to this developments I plan to start an agency.

About myself: I am a Dutch Black Women, just 58 years of age. Since the 
70ties I am an active member of Black, Migrant and Refugee (MBR) Women 
Movements in my country and abroad; I organized discussions, wrote 
analyzing articles, introduced film documentaries about Women and 
Development at the university, and gave readings on Power relations in 
Slavery, about Status differences between White and BMR Black, Migrant & 
Refugee) Women in Holland and abroad (amongst others). 

I graduated in 1988 at the University of Amsterdam in Social Anthropology 
and Sociology of Non-Western Peoples (sic!); and specialized in Women's 
Studies, Economics of Developing Regions and Issues of Develepment. 
My thesis on Women and Slavery dealt with the economic importance of 
enslaved African (descent) Women for (what was called later) Europe. 
(further research on this subject was not funded).
During my study I was a member and later co-ordinator of a 
multidisciplinairy Women students group ("Women and/in the Third 
World"!), that discussed the 'shape' of anti-racist Women's Studies.

In my professional career (1959-1978), I worked in the intra- and 
extramural (rural) health care and worked on behalf of children with 
physical and social problems. I supervised health care workers and was a 
staff member of a municipal social health care organization. 

So you see, I am / have an anlayzing but practical character.

Josee A. A. Maas <jaambwa-AT-antenna.nl >