[statecom] Exploring feminism proposal

[Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com]

Re: Exploring feminism (proposal below after articles posted here)
Monday January 21, @11:33PM, by Grace Ross
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THE ARTICLES! Hi, here are four links (some on-line versions seem to only 
existed abridged). These are classics and in no particular order. I encourage 
folks to read whatever you can before the discussion (hopefully) at the meeting. 
And if not, they are still great and are still insightful in (deepening) our 
understanding of our Feminist Key Value-

Thanks, Grace

Part of Audre Lorde’s Masters Tools Cannot Dismantle the Master’s house
http://brownfemipower.com/?p=1079

Bernice Johnson Reagon’s Coalition Politics
http://shewhostumbles.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/bernice-johnson-reagon-coalitio
n-politics-turning-the-century/

Carol Hanisch’s Personal is Political
http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2259

Marilyn Frye’s Politics of Reality
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500Oppression.html

 Subject : Reading a few pieces, statecom discussion
Summary :
As we struggle as a party to support the candidacy of female candidates, 
provide female leadership within the party and struggle against a political 
culture long dominated by mean, this seemed an important time to (re-)explore our 
feminist roots and commitment to one of our key values:feminism.

Let's take some time before statecom to read three pieces and use 45 minutes 
of our meeting for discussion.

I'll create links or email out the essays once I get them in electronic form
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That statecom members read three to four cornerstone feminist essays before 
our January statecom meeting.

That we take 45 minutes during the meeting for discussion, in small or whole 
group.

What did we learn or learn anew? How can we apply this in our work out in the 
world? In our relationships inside and outside the party? What does this mean 
for our fundamental analysis of how to create change in our society? In our 
Commonwealth?


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