Re: Volga on the responsibilities of feminist writers

Prasad Chodavarapu (prasad@acm6.me.uiuc.edu)
Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:48:15 -0500 (CDT)

: applicable or useful to other women. For a person dedicated to writing
: about liberty, sexuality and reproductive rights of women, the responsibility
: lies not in finding solutions to problems of individual women, but in
: demonstrating that these issues are not personal and in proving to the
: society that these issues need to be considered as societal problems that
: need society-wide resolutions. The strengths and successes of feminist
: writers will be measured by how well they do this job.
: A part of my effort in this direction is the novel "Swescha."

what i am posting is not related to telugu saahityam,
still as this forum shows a lot of interest in movements
such as feminisim, i would like to point out that the
latest(july, 1996) issue of "america" has a very good
essay by a harvard prof. on the new trends in feminism.
the essay speaks about the motivations behind feminism
of the 90s, how it tries to recognise that the best model
for women is not the same as for men and how the ideas of
90s are distinctly different from the older ones which
unduly empasize career-oriented approaches for women.

regards
prasad

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