Feminism | Feminism
Dec.05.2012
(This is what I wrote for Wikipedia)
1950s England has traditionally been regarded as a bleak period for feminism. In the aftermath of the Second World War, a new emphasis was placed on the nuclear family as a foundation of the new British Welfare State. Although during the war most women...
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Nov.29.2012
So, there's this dude (I am assuming) at Deviant Art who has created a poster of "Action figures" of "Heroes of Science" - i.e. folk who have had an influence, presumably, on the world of science. He has drawn the action figures as they might appear were they actually real - they are, as far as I...
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Nov.21.2012
Words like “pro-choice” did not even occur to her as they forced an iron rod into her vagina and, together with the blood, remnants of an unborn human being seeped out. She wept a little for the lost child and much more for the scalded part that was essential to her job. Shanno was a sex...
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Nov.18.2012
I was feeling blue; I got in a silly fight over Thanksgiving with my parents. I hate saying this but I have mixed feelings about Thanksgiving Day. Yes it's great to be together and be thankful, but then there was that pesky awful thing we did to the Native Americans by driving them off their...
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Nov.14.2012
A book recommendation: Letters to My Daughter in 1957 by Edith Summerskill
One of the most notable example of a successful feminist in 1950s Britain, whose career was also her vocation, was Edith Summerskill (1901-1980), an Oxford graduate, physician, Member of Parliament, and a Minister of...
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Nov.12.2012
Remember when the worst thing to call a liberal was a “card-carrying” member of the American Civil Liberties Union? There’s no feminist card, but if there were, it would be in my elaborate, many-zippered red purse.
People will tell you there’s a credibility gap between that purse and feminism,...
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Nov.04.2012
לאשה משנת 1947
20.8.47
על דברים שהכל מהרהרים בה
להיות עקרת בית או בעלת מקצוע?
היא באה לשאול בעצתי, זה עתה סיימה את חוק לימודיה בגמנסיה ויש ברצונה להמשיך בלימודים.
"אמור לי, מה לדעתך עלי ללמוד. פילוסופיה, מדעי היהדות, או--- חימיה?"
"אם בקולי...
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Nov.04.2012
The conference Married Women At Work
Nothing but a short draft report was left from it
was from October 19th till 21nd.
5SPG f l533
draft of a report on the conference of married women who go out to work October 56
By Ena R Dell (insufficient notes)
We are here...
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Sep.30.2012
I wrote this post shortly after the Toronto International Film Festival and before “17 Girls” was shown in U.S. theaters.
Having organized the Milwaukee Feminist Film Series forthe last two years, I was ecstatic when Milwaukee Film Festival contacted me in July and said that it wanted us, that is...
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Aug.29.2012
So, what was the truth about her missing name?
I attribute no particular thematic or plot significance to her lack of name, nor do I assign it any sexist implication. Her lack of a name is rooted in realism. It's the way workers referred to married women whose name they didn't know. That and that...
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