Sublime

To find out what women writers are up against, if you want the useful blues, read Tillie Olsen, and if you want to get cheerfully enraged, read Joanna Russ’s How to Suppress Women’s Writing or Dale Spender’s wonderful Man Made Language.

feminists

Research by anthropologists and sociologists indicates that small privatized units, especially those organized around patriarchal thinking, are unhealthy environments for everyone. Globally, enlightened, healthy parenting is best realized within the context of community and extended family networks.

Os pais transferiram para as filhas as expectativas de sucesso outrora reservadas para os filhos homens; mas a obrigação de ser linda, herdada das mães, não foi suavizada em consequência disso.

directly confronting racial and gendered inequalities was a key strategy to eradicate them. As she carefully explained in her 1965 Freedomways

Sisterhood Is Powerful,

Para a mulher de classe média, ainda recentemente valorizada por sua disposição de aceitar o isolamento do lar, a vida na rua e no escritório apresenta ansiedades desconhecidas, submetendo-a a um exame em público, que sua mãe e sua avó evitavam a qualquer preço.

tranquilizava os homens ao lhes sugerir a fragilidade feminina, a assexualidade e a fome.

But as a little girl, she experienced this viscerally, felt firsthand how creations can control their creators.