[-empyre-] most influential, most dangerous, most courageous women
christina
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Wed Mar 9 09:09:03 EST 2011
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and in fact let's riff on more media artists, yourself included in my
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On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Lynn Hershman wrote:
> Has anyone mentioned Tina Modotti?
> l
>
> On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Christiane Robbins wrote:
>
>> And ... for the record ... in case she has not been yet mentioned:
>>
>> Ralf Huebner Earth News March 7, 2011
>>
>> http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/370619,womens-day-
>> feature.html
>>
>> Wiederau, Germany
>>
>> A bronze statue in front of the childhood home of Clara
>> Zetkin is one of the few remaining landmarks
>> commemorating the socialist women's rights campaigner
>> who founded International Women's Day.
>>
>> At the second International Socialist Women's
>> Conference in Copenhagen in 1910, Zetkin proposed an
>> annual day to honour women's rights. Her suggestion was
>> approved and International Women's Day was first held
>> 100 years ago, in 1911. It is now celebrated on March 8
>> each year.
>>
>> Zetkin was born in 1857 in Wiederau, a town nestled in
>> the sparsely populated region between the eastern
>> German cities of Leipzig and Chemnitz. She died in
>> exile in the Soviet Union in 1933.
>>
>> In the former Communist East German state, the
>> socialist politician was a national icon whose profile
>> featured on the 10-Mark banknote.
>>
>> But 20 years after German unification, she is virtually
>> unknown to the residents in Wiederau. None of its
>> streets is named after her, and the former school and
>> gardening collective that bore her name have been
>> closed.
>>
>> Her old home, once known as the Clara Zetkin Memorial
>> Site, is now simply called the Museum in the Old
>> Village School.
>>
>> Zetkin lived in the schoolhouse until the age of 15,
>> when her family moved to Leipzig. Today, the building
>> is filled with memorabilia from the early 20th century,
>> a time of social change and class conflict.
>>
>> During the East German regime, visitors filled the
>> house on March 8 each year, said Ursula Bergmann of the
>> local heritage society.
>>
>> "Every year on Women's Day there was a trip first to
>> the memorial site, then something to eat," Bergmann
>> said. "The memorial was a form of socialist pilgrimage
>> site."
>>
>> The guest book bears testimony to the worker's
>> collectives, school groups and delegations from around
>> the world who stopped by to honour Zetkin's memory.
>>
>> "The locals did not like all the fuss," Bergmann said.
>>
>> When the East German state crumbled in 1989, Zetkin's
>> statue was not left unscathed by the revolutionary
>> turmoil. It was an obvious target at the town's main
>> junction. One morning it was found face down on the
>> ground, and was subsequently moved out of the town
>> centre, to Zetkin's former home.
>>
>> Wiederau is in a part of Germany that has suffered from
>> the failure of Communism, as state-run industry
>> collapsed after unification and young people left the
>> region in droves.
>>
>> The town's streets are empty, the former department
>> store is up for sale and Wiederau's former knitwear
>> factory has been converted into a home for the elderly.
>>
>> These days the museum draws just 200 visitors annually,
>> Bergmann said.
>>
>> But March 8 is still the busiest day of the year, she
>> said, when radical Left Party legislators bring guests
>> to celebrate their Comrade Clara. Members of the
>> heritage society sell coffee and cake to earn a few
>> euros.
>>
>> The visitors are hardly ever locals - but the residents
>> of Wiederau have now made peace with the socialist hero
>> who once lived in their midst, Bergmann said.
>>
>> "We know that Clara Zetkin was born here," said a
>> saleswoman in one of the town's small grocery stores.
>> But she thought it was right that Zetkin's statue no
>> longer graced the town's central crossroads.
>>
>> "She's doing okay where she now stands," she said.
>>
>> ___________________________________________
>> On Mar 7, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Ana Valdes wrote:
>>
>>> Some names I should like to add, Flora Tristan, grandmother of
>>> Gauguin and one of the first socialists, Florence Nightingale, the
>>> writer Nathalie Barney, the Nobelprize Rigoberta Menchu, Emma
>>> Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Christine de Pisan, The Rennaisance
>>> painter Artemisia Gentileschi, the suden Kristina of Sweden, who
>>> abdicated and died in Rome.
>>> Ana
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On 7 mar 2011, at 21:24, 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 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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