>>Antonio, it would help me to understand your position if you could explain >>exactly how pomo helped you to work with the battered women. > >The second way in which pomo helped me in the work with battered women >(this is the point I thought I was making in the original message) was that >it let me accept a different discourse and consciousness as a player in the >project (the discourse and consciousness of the battered women themselves, >different from the traditional marxist discourse with which I entered the >stage) and, then, work to find ways of creating a strategic alliance >between this discourse (about the social construction of gender roles) and >my discourse (about the social construction of class). That's quite >important, but it is also a consequence of the strategy in point 1 above of >enlarging the struggle to constituencies other than the traditional labor >constituencies. So does that basically mean you decided to actually _listen_ to the people you were working to organize? Radical perhaps, but hardly new. Pomo challenged, just trying to understand, Gil
