Category: feminism
Jan 24 2024
from Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: a feminist dictionary, a woman’s companion to words and ideas, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler
A hefty book of over 500 pages of entries, but worth, at the very least, a skim through for words of interest to you. Here are a few that I love:
Academia: a hierarchy whose “purpose is the production of prestige” (Jo Freeman, 1979)
Acknowledgements: … where authors acknowledged the ideas and …
Aug 27 2023
from Dale Spender’s Nattering on the Net — quotes and notes
According to 19th C feminist scholar Matilda Joslyn Gage, 9 million women were executed or burned for having knowledge—i.e., for being witches (p163)
Wow. Did not know it was that many.
“Had women ever contributed to the design of roads and vehicles, there is no doubt that the entire system would look …
Apr 11 2023
things we — women — wouldn’t have without feminism
https://medium.com/the-matriarchy/things-you-wouldnt-have-without-feminism-e743e694801e
Sad to say, I’ll bet some will surprise you.
Mar 02 2023
aurora linnea on Ekman’s “On the Meaning of Sex”
An excellent review of an excellent book here.
And because a link isn’t anywhere near sufficient …
“On the Meaning of Sex reads like a forensic dissection, its forty concise chapters taking apart the corpus of transgender ideology piece by piece. No fallacy-wrapped riddle of a paradox is spared the nick of …
Feb 19 2023
Homophobia – great quote
“Homophobia is not actually straight men being afraid of gay men. It’s straight men afraid of any man treating them like they treat a woman.” quoted in Manifest: Transitional Wisdom on Male Privilege as a viral cartoon
Nov 11 2022
from Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Just read this first novel by Bonnie Garmus. It’s great! Unapologetically feminist and funny! Here are some of my favourite lines (not counting Six-Thirty’s quips about German Shepherds):
“Idiots make it into every company. Then tend to interview well.” (p111)
And the bit about Dr. Spock (p144) and the bit ending with …
Oct 23 2022
The Privilege of Men, Judith Mazzucco
The Privilege of Men by Judith Mazzucco starts as an unremarkable novel about the meat industry, but then WHAM! the metaphor in chapter 16— At least I think, I hope, it’s a metaphor and not something that’s actually happening somewhere right now. Though—and I’m not sure whether this is Mazzucco’s point or whether she’s …
Oct 09 2022
The End of Men – Christina Sweeney-Baird
Just read The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird – well worth the read, one of several notable bits:
[She pretends to be infected] “I have never felt so powerful. This must be what men used to feel like. My mere physical presence is enough to terrify someone into running. No wonder they used …
Oct 06 2022
Meghan Murphy’s “The Unbearable Coolness of Porn”
A simple but stunning observation: “… paying for sex is coercive – we all know that when people want to have sex with one another, they do it for free. No one needs to be paid unless one party is not enthusiastic about the sex.”
Read the whole thing here: https://www.feministcurrent.com/2022/09/12/the-unbearable-coolness-of-porn/
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