One cannot assume that gender practice or that the feminist agenda can be best advanced or conveyed by political organizations or development practitioners. There are overt “structured expressions” as there are the generally unseen or unrecognized undercurrents of opposition –revealed not so much in terms of what is publicly admitted and socially and politically accepted as in terms of the concretely and objectively lived by everyday women. A feminist critique should not confine itself to the readily observable, the formal political expression and meaning; it should also clarify and crystallize the often disjointed, because ignored and rejected, social practice as conveyed by women outside the helm and influence of the often elitist and unconsciously conservative political and formal organizations.
Believing in a good cause but acting out of ignorance, these organizations often don’t see that they have been allying themselves with the Church, the State, the repressive forces of conservatism, the hell with them.
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