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

[Ana Valdés]

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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