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

Tue Mar 8 08:53:31 EST 2011

I hear you, Christina. I was thinking we working additively and collectively and I wanted to shift ever so slightly to Andre Mesquita's writing about Monica Rizzolli's work through the lens of Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. 

I also wanted to fade, or suggest return to this idea in light of a paradigm shift that has / is in the process of unfolding now in terms of media and women's legibility, discursive and corporeal action. And here, I should outline my own figure as a Marxist feminist and artist/art historian.

I think what you've done, and what Andre and Monica are doing challenges our perceived notions of  disciplines and the discourses around them in a way that makes use of the open field--occupies it as an area of settlement and research.

On Mar 7, 2011, at 12:24 PM, christina <christina at christinamcphee.net> wrote:

> 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 Fl
> 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
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>> 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.
>>> 
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>>> 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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