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Created: December 5, 2001
Latest Update: December 5, 2001
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Feminist Theory

By Maria Santiago

Copyright: Jeanne Curran, Susan R. Takata, and Maria Santiago: December 2001.
and Individual Authors. "Fair Use" encouraged.

On December 5, 2001, Maria Santiago wrote:

Hi Jeanne!

Jeanne, a few weeks ago, I stopped by your office and we had a discussion about the site you put up titled, "Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere" by Maria Pia Lara, mpl@xanum.uam.mx. I did my undergraduate work at Mount St. Mary's College, which is a women's college. Therefore, much of what I studied was feminist theory but really I do not remember studying the works of a Latin American feminist theory. When I found this on the site, I felt so relieved to know that although many women from around the, continue to be oppressed,I saw this like a light of hope. (oh, and I do read and speak Spanish, so it was kind of neat to find it in my native language!)

Well Lara talks about political philosophy as she argues for social justice. I very much found Lara's work to relate to what our country is going through now. In particular her statement of "human cruelty towards others that cannot defend themselves". Lara also related this to the Holocaust and genocide. Lara also explores the question of what to do to refrain from such "human impulsivity".

Now, I took this in the sense that our Nation's leaders do not always have to be "right" when they take decisions of war, but I think we get so caught up with the media's representation that we are almost like zombies "following" without analyzing social justice or asking one single question.

I need to get to work now but I will put the rest up later today.

On December 5, 2001, jeanne responded:

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