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To: jlallen who wrote (37077)	3/8/1999 11:45:00 AM
From: lorrie coey	Respond to of 67261

Feminist philosopher Janice Raymond (1986) has developed a philosophy of female friendship in order to "think in new ways about women's social, moral, and intellectual life." (p. 38). In her philosophy, she explores what makes it possible for women to live in the world as we currently experience it and what will enable us to begin to break free of that which divides us. Raymond calls the message that "women are one another's worst enemies" cultural "noise pollution" that obscures the realities of women's friendships. By "realities", Raymond means the authentic ways in which women experience the world as women, and not the constructed interpretations that are imposed through stereotypes, patriarchal theories, myths, or culturally institutionalized prescriptions. Through women's friendships with one another, women create time and space for social and political existence -- literally the foundation from which we can exercise our passion. As Janice Raymond says, "The culture of female friendship has a distinctive purpose, passion, and politics. Its origins are to be found in those spheres where women were and are free to be for each other and where women provide women with a sense of difference, importance, autonomy, and affection" (Raymond, 1986, p. 38)