#vendredilecture (comment ça on est samedi?) Mais avec la sortie de "yet another shit tier science book" sur les différences #genetique, je me suis décidé à faire monter sur ma pile un livre qui y traine deouis 6 ans: Testosterone Rex de Cordelia Fine.
Il revient sur l'idée, qui a très mal vieilli depuis, que la testostérone est aux fondement des "différences de comportement et cognitives" entre les hommes et les femmes. Ça date de 2017, et ça se lit vraiment bien. #science#feminism#psychology
If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.
On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.
”[Molly Ivins] came already baked, so to speak. She was already almost fully developed as a writer. So there was not much editing to do, except maybe tone down some of the excesses. I think I saved a couple of libel suits ...”
Edith Margaret #Garrud, born Edith Margaret Williams, was one of the first female martial arts teachers in Europe. She is known for training a unit of bodyguards in #jūjutsu techniques for the Women's Social and Political Union, so that they could respond to physical attacks on them by some anti-feminist men.
btw, if you had problems with the promo code earlier, sorry, their distributor sold out. but now it's back in stock & the promo code will work until April 15th! #TDoV#TDOV2024#trans#transgender#LGBTQ#feminism#books
Before "The Handmaid's Tale", there was Sonya Dorman's chilling "The Deepest Blue in the World"—and you can find it in the 3rd volume of Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women...
On this final day of Women’s History Month, let us celebrate and honor the work that women do for us. Maria Kalman has written a book titled “Women Holding Things,” which is both a literal and metaphorical reference to how women hold us up.
As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement. In our magazine, Correspondent Eva Ruth Moravec interviews Northcott about the history of our publication: https://www.texasobserver.org/forging-their-own-way-kaye-northcott/
Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
I've finished: A Spindle Splintered by Alex E. Harrow
A Spindle Splintered has all the right elements, examining the sleeping beauty archetype in folklore through a feminist lens. Connecting the dying princess story to that of a contemporary terminally ill girl.
So why didn't I enjoy it? The writing is clunky, there is hardly any challenge, Zinnia can just walls into a mediaeval castle and do as she pleases. All she needs is attitude. The opposition is ludicrously inept or turns out to be on her side.
I recommend reading: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir instead.
My "favourite" thing about this study is the part where achaeologists who found hunting tools/weapons in women's graves assumed they were kitchen implements.
Like, "well Hans, in this woman's grave, we found what inscriptions at the time have named the Flail of Vengeance. As of right now, we are not sure to what culinary task this tool was turned, but conjecture that it was possibly the preparation of small pies."
The UN has just appointed (by acclamation - there were no other candidates put forward) the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia to he'd up the UN Commission that is supposed to promote women's rights across the world & empower women politically....
Given the grudging, uneven & slow progress on such empowerment in his own state, the notion that this can possibly be a positive more for global women is beyond belief.
This is an image that should cover the front page of most magazines and news papers.
The amazing strength and bravery of women of Gaza who are showing the world how love and humanity looks like.
This is not going to be published, no one will dare humanizing the victims of the genocidal regime of Israel. Much less a Palestinian woman wearing Hijab.
The plight of women in #Gaza is underreported not only because many media even in liberal Western democracies still are based on male dominance but because liberal #feminism has a blind spot regarding its shortcomings in opposing the colonialist and imperialist i.e. patriarchal rule of their governments.
Those imperatives are baked in a feminism that restricts its activities on equal chances in their national market societies without criticising their extractivistic and capitalistic methods of accumulation in the Global south.
In the end women themselves want to benefit from this exploitative relation instead of liberating women and other genders all over the world in special solidarity with those who have nearly no agency left to resist war, famine and suppression.
The gigantic gap regarding rights, freedoms and wealth between Israel and #Palestine signifies this hierarchical patriarchal relation and manifests its violent structure in Gaza in the unbearable insight that this is about annihilation
In Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils o
“It’s not just the beating me down that is hard,” one Black woman PhD candidate told a researcher. “It is the fact that it feels like I’m villainized and made out to be the problem for trying to advocate for myself.”
Women interviewed for the study report feeling isolated, abused and overworked. One said she had been tricked into handling a two- to four-person job entirely by herself.
I've finished: Six-Guns Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
This one has been on my wishlist for a while. It was hard to get in audio with an Israeli credit cart and I wasn't completely sure about it since I'm not much of a western fan.
I'm very glad I managed to get my hands on it.
I love Velente's writing. I love that the Snow White reimagining is only one aspect of the novella. I love that Snow isn't the only character in distress and that the oppression and dispossession is explored in more than one way. I love how far she had to go to find peace, that there was no quick magic fix.