Hello everybody!!! Today, I listened to a really interesting woman talking about women´s force in the social life. This woman, Arvonne Fraser, made an excellent work to show how some people (mainly women), including herself, have been involved in creating an ideal environment to show the relevance and importance of women in the common life. Her activity started in USA and continue with different commitments among organizations helping women in non-industrialized countries. Each of the four meetings of Women in development, held on different countries (i. e. Mexico, in 1975) let people become aware of the role of women in the society. She gave two examples of how International laws could help to women. One of these stories was about one woman that lived in a non-industrialized country, and how a court decided to give her sons the double nationality. This response was a sign of giving to this woman an active role on her sons´s lives. Efforts from this kind of organizations that moves people to realize about women´s role in the society is appreciated. I´m really grateful for her honesty and feeling that she has had since the beginning of this venture.
Some weeks ago, each of us presented a short talk about non-profit organizations. And, listening to other´s speech made us sensitive of being helpful for somebody else. Today, this talk made me feel that each of us can start a small movement that at the end could result in a big impact on someone´s life. We live in a society, no matter how big or small it is. We have some commitments between us. One of them, is to help others to reach a better life. In this case, she demonstrated a really good way to show others how relevant the role of women between us is.
At the end of this lecture, I was interested to read one of her books, the purple one (she talked about some stories written there, and women who participated in the elaboration of this book) to discover more about this great story. I made an attempt to give more information to somebody who wants to read about women´s experience in this movement. Here is a link of his bibliographical record:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b_0_6?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=arvonne+fraser&sprefix=Arvonn
Thanks for the summary. I'm really glad you shared the information about the book and that you related the lecture to our other discussions / presentations. Have you ever done any volunteer work or activism?
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like her lecture was very inspiring and moving.