We will be very happy about your letters with responses and comments on the problems raised in this issue, as well as on other issues important for expanding and deepening the dialogue between women of our countries. We will be happy to answer them. To regret, however, since there are no special staff of us, we will not be able to give answers to

Natalya Fedorova says herself: I admit that I am for the first time at the women's forum. I never realized myself inside the female movement. But after listening to what the seminar says, I realized that I have been in it for the past ten years. All my life I have worked in the "box", so I am very interested in the problems of conversion and women. Once in an extreme situation, unexpectedly for myself, I found myself at a certain tip of social and political problems.

Twenty years ago, Ellen Haas, the founder of the Washington organization "The Voice of the Nation in Defense of a Healthy Eating", organized a local group in her gesture to combat exorbitantly growing prices. The group gathered in the basement of her house. “I have never been a supporter of the overthrow of the old, but always took an active part in upholding my pressing interests,” says Ellen Haas.

Dear friends, i was so happy to get several issues of your "Dialogue" from my Moscow collegue, Dr. Mikhailova of Moscow State University. • As I work and study as post-graduate in American literature at Teachers TrainingCollege (Novgorod State University), and have 90% of my students only girls, your edition is so, so helpful to me personally and for my students as well.

When I was small, almost a shopkeeper, as if reluctantly, the Sheriff's wife began, my kitten ... There was a boy there, he took an ax and before my eyes ... I did not have time to run up to him, Mrs. Peters hid her face in the palm of my hand. If my father had not kept me, I would, I would ... She fell silent, looking up where the steps were heard, and quietly finished the phrase, I would hit him. I can’t imagine what people who have never had children feel, ”said Mrs. Hale.

Let's talk about this later, Mr. Hale. This is very interesting to me, but now I would like to know what you saw when you entered here. Hale spoke again, this time more deliberately and carefully. When I went to the house, everything was quiet. I knocked. Again not a sound inside. I knew that Wright had already stood the beginning of the ninth. I knocked stronger, and I heard, someone behind the door said "Come in!". Although I am not sure of this now.

Martha Hale pushed the front door, the bursting north wind whipped in the face, and she returned to the house for a large warm shawl. I hastily looked around the kitchen and was ashamed. Of course, she is going today on an unusual business, which has never happened in the Dixon district. So I had to quit everything for March! -The annoyed voice of my husband was led from the street. Why are you hesitating there? People are waiting for you in such a cold.

I live from Wednesday to Wednesday. From resentment delirium to trouble. From victory to midnight nonsense: on Wednesday ... See you soon ... on Wednesday. As a bad grass, a week is overgrown with a medium. The meaning of the days of the rest is unknown to me: what do you come to me on Wednesdays! Either the executioner, then live water ... And cripples and heals the medium. Like a crazy star, without a trace of flying, the medium is burning out.

The psychological consequences of suffered sexual violence can be divided into closest and distant ones. As the observations of women who have survived the sexual attack, as well as the analysis of letters, are one of the immediate consequences of the survivor of violence are low self-esteem, aggravated by experienced acute shame, anger, a sense of their own guilt (as women themselves write: “I didn’t resist”, “I could not resist”, it could have been provoked by something ”).

In one sense, I tested from what sometimes falls to the share of other victims of violence. A stranger in a deserted place struck me in a deserted place, the traces of the beatings were so obvious that I did not have to face the offensive distrust of the doctors and the police and with shame to make excuses for them. But still, I experienced a rather ordinary reaction of others to such cases, I would call it a reaction of removal.

In the editorial preface to the sixth number of "you and we" casually mentioned how ordinary American women achieve an influential political and social situation. Members of school councils, secretaries become congressmen and senators. I think that your readers are unlikely to imagine what the path to the highest posts lay only through the "law". Men and women who dream of devoting themselves to politics should have had a nearby diploma.

From the editor. This year, I lived with my husband and daughter in Moscow for two summer months on the corner of Tver Boulevard and Malaya Bronnaya. This is a very quiet place, in the square in front of the house there are always many children and mothers. Every evening I went with my daughter to a playground near the house. We walked past a kiosk where wine and cigarettes were sold, past a small open -air cafe, shaded by green crowns.

One of the most sick problems of our cities is lonely old women. About ten years ago, Olga Georgievna Tchaikovskaya gave me the address of a very middle -aged woman who turned to her for help. I got out of the subway, went deeper into the new building area and with difficulty found what I needed among the same boxes. She climbed to the fifth floor and was a small one -room apartment, clogged with multi -caliber furniture and different sizes tied with twine.

Question: Why does women wait for so many dangers in life? Answer: To a large extent because the governments do not pay attention to the violence that women are subjected to, and we put out with this. Therefore, the commission was created under the UN in defense of women's rights. Q: What does there and for some time, usually about two weeks, we cooperate with local groups, collect material confirming the crimes committed. Of course, a serious research work is done before the trip and after it.

Sizan Bryson teaches Wilosophy at Dartmut College, now he writes a book about sexual violence. On July on July 1990, I went out after breakfast to take a walk through peaceful fields in the south of France. It was a wonderful morning, and I did not envy the one who remained at home to work with a French colleague on the manuscript. I walked, singing something quietly, sometimes stopped strokes the goat or disrupting the ripe strawberries.