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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself! Posted on Fri Oct 24th, 2003 at 02:09:19 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through having been a feminist for a long time
Thanks, Ryan, for posting your review of Domain Errors! here. Reading it reinforced my certainty that I want this book, if it needed any reinforcing, I just keep forgetting to order it. I know my own reasons for wanting to read it, but now I am curious about your motivation. Would you mind commenting on that?
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Looking at the keywords you listed makes me curious as to why you - or anyone, for that matter - would be interested in these topics, although in the review you have described very clearly, I think, why they are (still? again?) important.
One thing that bothers me is the suggestion that "exclusionary practices" are a mistake made in the past, but no longer relevant. This seems to be a very widespread idea (especially among younger women), but I would disagree. I have found women-only spaces and situations at times very empowering (I'm reluctant to use that word, but I can't think of a better one right now), and I think there can be good reasons for people, who feel they belong to a certain group, to tell those who don't belong to that group that they are not welcome. Not everywhere, not all the time - is it really necessary to add that?
I'm not nostalgic for the feminism of the 80s that I became part of as a student, I wouldn't want to go back there, and sometimes I have doubts about what was really "achieved". Altogether, I find cyberfeminism is not merely picking up the threads of what feminism was before, but a good name for stating a disagreement with the way the world is now, knowing how many different and contradictory definitions of this world there are, and a willingness to seek to change it. |
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