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careful analysis and is a source [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] of strong feelings. Since women have been prevented from fully participating in society both in making money and in making decisions about spending it, women face material and emotional difficulties around this subject. These questions have of course arisen in women's movement activities: Should we charge money? How do we [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] charge without excluding any women? Is it all right to value feminist services in monetary terms? And what about the need to recycle money inside the feminist community? Our purpose is to deal with the issue of feminism and money responsibly and at the same time make it possible for women to survive in the present monetary structure. In the F.S.W. we face the fact that it requires a $ 1200 tuition fee to participate in the program; while ideally we would like each woman to be able to pay according to her means, it would simply not be possible to operate the school or the Woman's Building without minimum funds for expenses and salaries. We ask women who are especially concerned with this issue, to join us in the work of obtaining funding rather than remain immobilized and angry about it. (Recently we were awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for scholarship funds for disadvantaged women.)
   The topic of work is related to money in so far as work is a necessity for monetary survival -- an issue for most women who come to the F.S.W. Problems related to work are at the heart of women's struggles when they are in the F.S.W.: Being able to do one's own work, the work that is linked with one's professional identity; receiving criticism and recognition for one's work, and respecting and valuing one's work.