From: iview-AT-technologist.com
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 19:48:26 -0700
Subject: To Lizzy:  Re: Taslima Nasreen and her head


And at whom do you level your charge of "snivelling pettiness"??? 
Surely not at me, Lizzy...please consider the women Ms. Nasreen has
snubbed on her way to stardom...however, I have not EVER said NOT to
rally round and support saving her from these spurious threats against
her life...let's stick with the issues...which I fear Ms. Nasreen leaves
behind along with her sister writers who are foremost in understanding
the war against women...except some women who proclaim their feminist
rage against oppression.  I would like to keep in perspective that every
woman is responsible for every other woman's success or failure.

Best,

-Manjusree


Lizzy Poole wrote:
> 
> Enrica Garzilli wrote:
> I have interviewd her and had the opportunity to talk to her for quite some time
> informally.I asked her about her relationship with feminist groups in Bangladesh
> and India. She told me that many of them wanted to use her name to have publicity,
> to become famous. That's very possible.
> 
> > However, I also had the impression of a certain ambiguity from her and a
> > certain will to be "the first", to be the heroine of the situation (I
> > have written all that in the report of the JSAWS, and her lecture, and
> > reported the recorded  reaction of people present.)
> > Like a hero, she wants to be isolated and alone. She wants to fight by
> > herself. For sure she is very childish... (besides the opportunity to be
> > alone in terms of results)
> > However, she is a symbol. That is important, not HER private figure and
> > personality. Sho cares of her in person?
> > The importance is in people who fights not in her name but taking her
> > name as a symbol of funfamentalists' oppression and prevarication.
> > WHat do you think about it?
> >
> > Enrica
> > --
> > Dr. Enrica Garzilli                 University of Perugia (ITALY)
> > Istituto di Linguistica                      Piazza Morlacchi, 11
> > 06123 Perugia                  Tel./Fax: +39-75-585 3755 (office)
> > Editor-in-Chief,
> > Intl. Journ. of Tantric Studies, Journal of S. Asia Women Studies
> > htpp://www.asiatica.org/
> > *****************************************************************
> 
>   Enrica - I agree with you - I think women tend to jump on the ones who dare to
> emerge as symbols or to stand alone, picking at things which could be put aside
> until later in order to use the actions of the woman for the benefit of all women
> and just being supportive instead.
> I think of Assata Shakur, Aug Sang Soo Ki (or however her name is spelled), Lani
> Gunier for that matter, and all the women who've been on the hotplate in danger of
> losing their heads, either symbolically or in fact, and as a woman, I stand behind
> them 100% whether they're trying to save all our lives or just their own.
> For a group of men, no matter what religion or political persuasion, to issue an
> order of death because a woman voices her opinion, is the sickest thing I ever
> heard of!
> But it's no worse than taking political prisoners - of people who disagree with
> the party in power.
> When a woman is in trouble, we should all rally - or some day, the bell will toll
> for thee and me.
> I hope people quit the snivelling pettiness and rage instead against the true
> perpetrators of outrageous behavior. Doesn't anyone recognize the war against
> women?
> Lizzy