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Dear Feminist Review, In February 1988 I attended a Women’s The Feminist Review Special Issue No. 31, Foundation Course at the Polytechnic of 1989 was for me, a working-class activist, North London. This was my first leap into very informative. Particularly in further education. I learnt much from the highlighting how little say working-class lecturers and other students. I also learned people have when political comment on that, although fate had forced me to live a women’s status in relation to social/ life on the frontline of oppression very economic/ education/living lives, is early in life, my life experience on the sought. ground floor, as it were, was invaluable, It does highlight how easy it is for not only in terms of my own identity and women to get into print: when they are class politics, but also in terms of what I politically left of centre. It seems to me could give to those women whose lives and that their view is: the only view. The one experiences were totally different to mine. that gets into print that is! Many working-But I also learned how impractical many of class women do not have the chance for the feminists ideologies were in relation to open debate. They are taught that getting the struggles and isolation working-class into print is an activity their class cannot women face, without much help from achieve. There are few examples to make those feminists whose lives have not been them think otherwise! Tell me, how often grossly marginalized. Getting into print for have the people that produce Feminist many working women is rare. How can the Review gone out of their way to seek the views expressed in books like Feminist views of women like myself. Working Review be considered balanced, nonélitist, class? I am a 49-year-old working-class when so many women’s views never get woman who has struggled to educate aired. Most views expressed are from herself after a lifetime in repetitive low-individuals who are politically motivated. paid boring jobs that dull the brain. The Why not ask women living on the frontline isolation that I, along with many other their opinions? They are rarely sought! Are working-class women, suffer, is brought you trying to say; You don’t speak our home to us when we read books like language, you express yourselves Feminist Review. Educated women have differently, therefore you have nothing to many advantages over working-class say? Tell me, how do we validate our lives? women. Control over publishing too. They There are other women who inhabit this articulate their views logically, with planet you know! Or are you so biased, practice!, due to a good education. Their fixed, élitist, you don’t know. views are constantly sought, enabling them Patricia Bright to form a clique of highly opinionated London monopolists. PS. By the way: I did enjoy Issue 31! Women like myself are learning much, but are silenced by silence re: our struggles and isolation. How little chance we have of Dear Feminist Review, debating issues with women different from The discussion about butch and femme ourselves in print! (Ardill and O’Sullivan, FR 34, 1990) still
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Dear Feminist Review, In February 1988 I attended a Women’s The Feminist Review Special Issue No. 31, Foundation Course at the Polytechnic of 1989 was for me, a working-class activist, North London. This was my first leap into very informative. Particularly in further education. I learnt much from the highlighting how little say working-class lecturers and other students. I also learned people have when political comment on that, although fate had forced me to live a women’s status in relation to social/ life on the frontline of oppression very economic/ education/living lives, is early in life, my life experience on the sought. ground floor, as it were, was invaluable, It does highlight how easy it is for not only in terms of my own identity and women to get into print: when they are class politics, but also in terms of what I politically left of centre. It seems to me could give to those women whose lives and that their view is: the only view. The one experiences were totally different to mine. that gets into print that is! Many working-But I also learned how impractical many of class women do not have the chance for the feminists ideologies were in relation to open debate. They are taught that getting the struggles and isolation working-class into print is an activity their class cannot women face, without much help from achieve. There are few examples to make those feminists whose lives have not been them think otherwise! Tell me, how often grossly marginalized. Getting into print for have the people that produce Feminist many working women is rare. How can the Review gone out of their way to seek the views expressed in books like Feminist views of women like myself. Working Review be considered balanced, nonélitist, class? I am a 49-year-old working-class when so many women’s views never get woman who has struggled to educate aired. Most views expressed are from herself after a lifetime in repetitive low-individuals who are politically motivated. paid boring jobs that dull the brain. The Why not ask women living on the frontline isolation that I, along with many other their opinions? They are rarely sought! Are working-class women, suffer, is brought you trying to say; You don’t speak our home to us when we read books like language, you express yourselves Feminist Review. Educated women have differently, therefore you have nothing to many advantages over working-class say? Tell me, how do we validate our lives? women. Control over publishing too. They There are other women who inhabit this articulate their views logically, with planet you know! Or are you so biased, practice!, due to a good education. Their fixed, élitist, you don’t know. views are constantly sought, enabling them Patricia Bright to form a clique of highly opinionated London monopolists. PS. By the way: I did enjoy Issue 31! Women like myself are learning much, but are silenced by silence re: our struggles and isolation. How little chance we have of Dear Feminist Review, debating issues with women different from The discussion about butch and femme ourselves in print! (Ardill and O’Sullivan, FR 34, 1990) still
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Dear Feminist Review, The Feminist Review Special Issue No. 31, 1989 was for me, a working-class activist, very informative. Particularly in highlighting how little say working-class people have when political comment on women’s status in relation to social/ economic/ education/living lives, is sought.
