Joan of Arc: A symbol of fascism or feminism?
Well, Joan of Arc had all that, and again with this difference, that she did not praise fighting, but fought. We KNOW that she was not afraid of an army, while Nietzsche, for all we know, was afraid of a cow. Tolstoy only praised the peasant; she was the peasant. Nietzsche only praised the warrior; she was the warrior. She beat them both at their o
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Anne-Marie Slaughter • Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
Avni Patel Thompson added
There’s a painting of Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Every now and then, when I’m in New York City, I like to drop in on that painting, as if it were a distant relative I enjoy seeing from time to time.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
In the 1970s and much of the 1980s, feminist scholars looked closely at women’s roles in the family and workforce and at social expectations that women be feminine, submissive, and beautiful, if not sexually available and pornographic. Marxist ideas of women as a subordinated class that exists to support men (who, in turn, support capitalism) aboun
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Ultimately, the whole feminist movement, since the late nineteenth century, comes down to just one issue: a woman can and must exist without being dependent on a man. A woman can and must be an autonomous person and not always the product of male mediation.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
women more than others will set their bodies on fire with passion for a savior and be willing to abandon the fear and love of comfort on which the modern state depends…them more than others, out of a wild and stupid enthusiasm.
Bronze Age Pervert • Bronze Age Mindset
Laura Huang added
The witch was a triple threat to the Church: She was a woman, and not ashamed of it. She appeared to be part of an organized underground of peasant women. She was a healer whose practice was based in empirical study. In the face of the repressive fatalism of Christianity, she held out the hope of change in this world.
Deirdre English • Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics)
Claudia Roth Pierpont • The Many Battles of Nina Simone
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