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

Tue Mar 8 07:24:21 EST 2011

Try finding information  online about many of these women.  These are  
not all famous people.  Check it out. Some are, many are not.  Yes,  
Les Annalistes had a profound contribution to 'the history of everyday  
life' (Aries, etc.)  Natalie Zemon Davis is a
particularly notable historian in re the 'invisible' in women's  
history.  The heretics of Carcasson-- I used Ladurie's book as the  
basis of a new media studio at Santa Cruz (undergraduate digital lab).

Let this exercise support one another , not tear each other down.

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 7, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Ana Valdés wrote:

> 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> 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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