中欧社会论坛 - China Europa ForumProposal Booklet of the Women’s College
Coordonné par Nadia Leïla Aïssaoui et Caroline Brac de la Perrière (France)
novembre 2001
Editions Charles Léopold Mayer
Asking the question « What proposals are women making for the 21st century? » amounts to asking « What proposals are being made by are half the world’s population, or three billion individuals?". Certainly, three billion pages would not suffice to make an inventory, even it were possible – though uncertain – that women have all the proposals for a responsible and united world. As a social category « built » to ensure the domination of the patriarchal system, women share a common condition in which they evolve differently according to the economic contexts in which they find themselves, their possibilities and their strategies for survival.Certain women, like many oppressed people, continue to live according to established orders without having the capacity or audacity, given the straightjackets they have to wear, to imagine anything else. Others may be aware of the world’s injustice and irresponsibility, but continue to suffer them, hoping that this resignation will avoid worsening their already excessively difficult conditions. However, because this condition is intolerable and that the injustice they suffer is too great from birth, many of them would like to change the course of events and dream of a responsible and united world. Some of them dream only of a better world for their daughters, though others, fortunately, find the strength and courage to make this dream a reality, by working for changes at every level of society. So, slowly, changes are happening thanks to their perseverance: areas of life and respect are opening up little by little and other types of social relationship are developing. Thus we have attempted to list their proposals in this booklet, but emphasise that such a task can never be exhaustive and necessarily simplifies and depletes the swarm of ideas that belong to them.