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Feminist Media Theory and Activism : Different Worlds or Possible Cooperation

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Danica Mini Ê.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	− Our activists feel they don't need theory. − Except for one, girls from Women's Studies don't come to our activities. The goal of feminism is a social change of unequal relations between men and women. This is one of the rare statements around which there is a consensus not only amongst feminist theoreticians and activists, but also among the many diverse schools of feminist theory. A multitude of different voices, sometimes in an inspiring discussion and other times in a crude preservation of positions, often begins with the following well-known questions: What should we do? What are the possible strategies for change? Where do they lead? What are their possible consequences? The cited quotes are off-the-cuff comments of a theoretician and an activist from Belgrade. They perhaps don't even remember their quotes but, for some reason, I have. In both cases, I have perceived them as indications of possible disagreements or a lack of cooperation between activist and academic parts of the women's scene in Belgrade. If looked at more closely, these two comments do have one thing in common: they both suggest that the other side does something wrong in their feminism. Activists don't read and so don't have the knowledge that is also required for activism, whereas theoreticians are not committed to 'really' helping women and taking part in protests. The first lack theory, and the second practice. Whether these comments are lone examples or whether they really speak of the relationship between the academic and activist women's scene in Belgrade could be the subject of further research; they are gender and peace work
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