[-empyre-] most influential, most dangerous, most courageous women

[christina]

  'most dangerous' --...  with help from friends--

Vera Zasulich, Hélène Cixhous, Patti Smith, Judith Butler
Amelia Bloomer, Scheherazade, Rosa Robata, Sofia Perovskaya
Lilith, Hildegard of Bingen, Carolee Schneemann, Adrian Piper
Cindy Sherman,  Julian of Norwich, bel hooks, Camille Paglia
Jingyu Xiang,Vivienne Westwood,  Isak Dinesen, Jeanne d'Arc
Gertrude Stein, Duygy Asena , Donna Haraway, Maria Callas
Grace Paley, Colette, Margaret Atwood, Regina Jose Galindo
Leslie Marmon Silko, Eliabeth Cady Stanton, Nan Goldin, Linda Nochlin
Boadicea, Lee Lozano, Sofia Perovskaya, Valie Export
Hannah Wilke,Rosa Robata,Lee Krasner,Lourdes Casal Valdes
Tracey Emin, Scheherazade,Billie Holliday, Amelia Bloomer
Marina Abramovic, Angela Davis, Edie Sedgwick, Jessica Mitford
Marguerite Duras, Phoolan Devi, Joan Didion, Felipa de Souza
Kate Millett, Pina Bausch, Charlotte Corday, Lidia Cabrera

       yet there are more....


On Mar 5, 2011, at 9:42 PM, christina wrote:

> Something is happening when a field becomes visible-- a field of  
> women in Bahrain countering a police line, a field of women in Ivory  
> Coast (shot down, six)--it's impossible not to speak of
> this new site of action. Remember when the only (s)hero job for  
> women in the intifada was to get oneself blown up?
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> Two days from now will be March 8-- Internatinal Women's Day  
> Centenary  1911-2011.  http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
>
> What happens when finally enough people start to have faith that it  
> actually matters for half of humankind to have human rights?
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> How does this field become visible?
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