[-empyre-] most influential, most dangerous, most courageous women
christina
christina at christinamcphee.net
Mon Mar 7 11:06:30 EST 2011
To Ana, and silent reading -empyreans-- ,
Actually I am so glad you (Ana) point out my apparently limited view
of intifada activity for women as limited to suicide.... My comment
was deliberately hyperbolic-- incendiary on purpose, in that
professorial way, as I hoped to wake up the list!!
Let's ask how there could be some more visibility for the amazing
women who have struggled to counter the systems of control, here on -
empyre-. Specifically about this, not just in the context of other
media/cultural topics.
To perform this exercise is to make evident exactly why it's important
to the theme of "How does a field become visible, when?"
We know of some, if some go on to be able to publish their writing and
other creative work and to enter multiple streams of political
action-- as you have done. Then there are so many who are as you call
them 'common women' -- but not common in their courage.
Here is the beginnings of a list of 'most courageous women' --
however you define 'woman' and of any era--. several of us have been
trying to create this week, with help from friends.. A few names are
'famous' but mostly not.
Hoda Aminan
Eula Gray
Mary Wollstronecraft
Mary Whang Choi
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Sussan Tamassebi
Rosa Luxembourg
Asadah Faramaziha
Parvin Ardalan
Suely Rolnick
Esha Momeimi
Axelline Soloman
Elena Gil
Phyllis Wheatly
Frances E. W. Harper
Gloria Anzaldua
Shirin Ebadi
Ingrid Washinawatok
Ana Mendieta
Marija Gimbutas
Helen Keller
Mercedes Amaiana
Fusae Ichikawa
Lola Rodriguez de Tio
Florence Kelly
Victoria Mxenge
Nawal El-Saadawi
Ada Lovelace
Eileen Gray
Pat Hearn
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Minerva Mirabal
Sappho
Sylvia Beach
Marilyn Monroe
Nancy Spero
Minerva Bernardino
Ginetta Sagan
Lee Bul
Margaret Atwood
Lee Lozano
Charlotte Moorman
Jane Jacobs
Joan Mitchell
On Mar 6, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
> Dear Christina, allow me to dissent a little bit :)
> At the Intifada the women had a very crucial role, I met Leila
> Khaled some years ago in Amman and her tale of her hitchjacking of
> two planes in the Eighties: is really atonishing.
> And I come myself from a generation of women engaged in gerilla
> warfare in South America. I spent four years as political prisoner
> in Uruguay for that.
> I think it's a kind of media issue, we "common women" don't fit in
> the hero's stereotyps.
> Cheers
> Ana
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:14 AM, christina <christina at christinamcphee.net
> > wrote:
> '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?
>
>
> 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?
>
> How does this field become visible?
>
>
>
>
>
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