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

Tue Mar 8 03:54:13 EST 2011

Allow me to add some Marxistic perspective to the discussion :) But if we
see which kind of women we know about, for their lives or for their deeds:
the most of them are aristocrats, nuns or well educated women, an exception
at the beginning of this century.
The class prospective is also applicable to men, we know about generals,
emperors or kings, but very little about peasants, soldiers and workers.
The Academy and the books are often written from above and it was only the
Annales School, in France, who started to talk about "les petites
histoires", it means the tales of everydays life. As in Mointalloux, the
book written by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladourie or Bread of Dreams, written by the
Italian historian Piero Camporesi.
These books are about European heresies, crushed by the authority of the
Church of Rome in alliance with wealthy princes.
Very few women were able to fight with their own class and with the
oppression of the system. Many of them chose to be nuns, as Hildegard of
Bingen, to avoid matrimony and mootherhood, to be able to sing, write and
create.
Ana

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:02 AM, cara baldwin <carabaldwin13 at gmail.com>wrote:

> What does this have to do with drawing, you ask? In a typically modernist
> approach to figure and field we're instructed to balance figure and ground
> in a way that is 'convincing'. Even if we 'solve' this problem by way of
> recourse to an overall composition-the multitudes-we are left with the
> responsibility for our own discernment and action.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 6, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Cara Baldwin <carabaldwin13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> where might 'we' might best focus our energies; figure and ground or the
> multitude?
>
>
> My answer to this question took less than a second, actually-- the
> multitudes. Figure and ground will take care of themselves.
>
> This is an expanded field, certainly; and one in which figures are
> articulate led not just differently-but more or less visibly.
>
>  'According to a study by the Centre for Women and Gender Studies, nearly
> 85 per cent of the United Arab Emirates population of four million is
> migrant workers. In Bahrain and Saudi Arabia 65 per cent of the workforce
> are expats. In Kuwait it is 82 per cent, and in Qatar almost 90 per cent.'
> Women are systematically and historically divested of rights and
> representation. They resist definition and are difficult to organize because
> of their illegibility-at a scale that is global, and radically local.
>
>
>
> On Mar 6, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Ana Valdés < <agora158 at gmail.com>
> agora158 at gmail.com> 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><christina at christinamcphee.net>
> 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/><http://www.internationalwomensday.com/>
>>> 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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