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Shulamith Firestone 1945–2012 2
Shulamith Firestone 1945–2012 2 Photograph courtesy of Lori Hiris. New York, 1997. Memorial for Shulamith Firestone St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, Parish Hall September 23, 2012 Program 4:00–6:00 pm Laya Firestone Seghi Eileen Myles Kathie Sarachild Jo Freeman Ti-Grace Atkinson Marisa Figueiredo Tributes from: Anne Koedt Peggy Dobbins Bev Grant singing May the Work That I Have Done Speak For Me Kate Millett Linda Klein Roxanne Dunbar Robert Roth 3 Open floor for remembrances Lori Hiris singing Hallelujah Photograph courtesy of Lori Hiris. New York, 1997. Reception 6:00–6:30 4 Shulamith Firestone Achievements & Education Writer: 1997 Published Airless Spaces. Semiotexte Press 1997. 1970–1993 Published The Dialectic of Sex, Wm. Morrow, 1970, Bantam paperback, 1971. – Translated into over a dozen languages, including Japanese. – Reprinted over a dozen times up through Quill trade edition, 1993. – Contributed to numerous anthologies here and abroad. Editor: Edited the first feminist magazine in the U.S.: 1968 Notes from the First Year: Women’s Liberation 1969 Notes from the Second Year: Women’s Liberation 1970 Consulting Editor: Notes from the Third Year: WL Organizer: 1961–3 Activist in early Civil Rights Movement, notably St. Louis c.o.r.e. (Congress on Racial Equality) 1967–70 Founder-member of Women’s Liberation Movement, notably New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists. Visual Artist: 1978–80 As an artist for the Cultural Council Foundation’s c.e.t.a. Artists’ Project (the first government funded arts project since w.p.a.): – Taught art workshops at Arthur Kill State Prison For Men – Designed and executed solo-outdoor mural on the Lower East Side for City Arts Workshop – As artist-in-residence at Tompkins Square branch of the New York Public Library, developed visual history of the East Village in a historical mural project. -
Women and Gender Studies / Queer Theory
1 Women and Gender Studies / Queer Theory Please choose at least 60 to 67 texts from across the fields presented. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with major works throughout this field, balancing their particular interests with the need to prepare themselves broadly in the topic. First Wave Feminism 1. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) 2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” (1848) 3. Harriet Taylor, “Enfranchisement of Women” (1851) 4. Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” (1851) 5. John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869) 6. Susan B. Anthony, Speech after Arrest for Illegal Voting (1872) 7. Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice From the South (1892) 8. Charlotte Perkins, Women and Economics (1898) 9. Emma Goldman, The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism (1917) 10. Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987) 11. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929) 12. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1953) Second Wave Feminism 13. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963) 14. Kate Millet, Sexual Politics (1969) 15. Phyllis Chesler, Women and Madness (1970) 16. Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970) 17. Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch (1970) 18. Brownmiller, Susan, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975) 19. Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976) 20. Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978) 21. 22. Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-75 (1989) Third Wave Feminism 23. Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake, eds., Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism (1997) 24. -
Susan Faludi How Shulamith Firestone Shaped Feminism The
AMERICAN CHRONICLES DEATH OF A REVOLUTIONARY Shulamith Firestone helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it. by Susan Faludi APRIL 15, 2013 Print More Share Close Reddit Linked In Email StumbleUpon hen Shulamith Firestone’s body was found Wlate last August, in her studio apartment on the fifth floor of a tenement walkup on East Tenth Street, she had been dead for some days. She was sixtyseven, and she had battled schizophrenia for decades, surviving on public assistance. There was no food in the apartment, and one theory is that Firestone starved, though no autopsy was conducted, by preference of her Orthodox Jewish family. Such a solitary demise would have been unimaginable to anyone who knew Firestone in the late nineteensixties, when she was at the epicenter of the radicalfeminist movement, Firestone, top left, in 1970, at the beach, surrounded by some of the same women who, a reading “The Second Sex”; center left, with month after her death, gathered in St. Mark’s Gloria Steinem, in 2000; and bottom right, Church IntheBowery, to pay their respects. in 1997. Best known for her writings, Firestone also launched the first major The memorial service verged on radical radicalfeminist groups in the country, feminist revival. Women distributed flyers on which made headlines in the late nineteen consciousnessraising, and displayed copies of sixties and early seventies with confrontational protests and street theatre. texts published by the Redstockings, a New York group that Firestone cofounded. The WBAI radio host Fran Luck called for the Tenth Street studio to be named the Shulamith Firestone Memorial Apartment, and rented “in perpetuity” to “an older and meaningful feminist.” Kathie Sarachild, who had pioneered consciousnessraising and coined the slogan “Sisterhood Is Powerful,” in 1968, proposed convening a Shulamith Firestone Women’s Liberation Memorial Conference on What Is to Be Done. -
TOWARD a FEMINIST THEORY of the STATE Catharine A. Mackinnon
TOWARD A FEMINIST THEORY OF THE STATE Catharine A. MacKinnon Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England K 644 M33 1989 ---- -- scoTT--- -- Copyright© 1989 Catharine A. MacKinnon All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America IO 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 1991 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data MacKinnon, Catharine A. Toward a fe minist theory of the state I Catharine. A. MacKinnon. p. em. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN o-674-89645-9 (alk. paper) (cloth) ISBN o-674-89646-7 (paper) I. Women-Legal status, laws, etc. 2. Women and socialism. I. Title. K644.M33 1989 346.0I I 34--dC20 [342.6134} 89-7540 CIP For Kent Harvey l I Contents Preface 1x I. Feminism and Marxism I I . The Problem of Marxism and Feminism 3 2. A Feminist Critique of Marx and Engels I 3 3· A Marxist Critique of Feminism 37 4· Attempts at Synthesis 6o II. Method 8 I - --t:i\Consciousness Raising �83 .r � Method and Politics - 106 -7. Sexuality 126 • III. The State I 55 -8. The Liberal State r 57 Rape: On Coercion and Consent I7 I Abortion: On Public and Private I 84 Pornography: On Morality and Politics I95 _I2. Sex Equality: Q .J:.diff�_re11c::e and Dominance 2I 5 !l ·- ····-' -� &3· · Toward Feminist Jurisprudence 237 ' Notes 25I Credits 32I Index 323 I I 'li Preface. Writing a book over an eighteen-year period becomes, eventually, much like coauthoring it with one's previous selves. The results in this case are at once a collaborative intellectual odyssey and a sustained theoretical argument. -
Breaking the Stalemate in Feminist and Environmental Activism
ESSAYS WHOSE MOVE? BREAKING THE STALEMATE IN FEMINIST AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM Anne E. Simon* INTRODUCTION Is there a feminist jurisprudence that includes attention to eco- logical issues? Should there be? What good might it do? Where might thinking about it lead? * Administrative Law Judge, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Pro- tection. This Essay is an expanded version of a presentation made on a panel at the conference, Justice and Gender: A New Look at Women and the Law - A Conference on Feminist Jurisprudence, sponsored by the University of Maine School of Law, on October 19, 1991. The conference was dedicated to the memory of Mary Joe Frug, professor of law at the New England School of Law in Boston, who had agreed to be a speaker on the panel shortly before she was killed in April, 1991. Professor Frug was born in Saint Joseph's, Missouri, on November 13, 1941. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1963 and her J.D. in 1968 from Washing- ton University Law Center, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. In 1972, she received her LL.M. from New York University Law School. Professor Frug worked at MFY Legal Services from 1968 to 1971 and was a Reginald Herber Smith Fellow from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to 1972, she was a Ford Fellow in urban law at New York University School of Law. She was an associate in law at Columbia Univer- sity School of Law from 1972 to 1974. From 1975 until 1981, Professor Frug served on the faculty of Villanova University School of Law, and from 1981 until her death, she was on the faculty at the New England School of Law. -
2254 Last December, While the National Organization for Women
SAUDI COURTS — WOMEN’S RIGHTS — GENERAL COURT OF QATIF SENTENCES GANG-RAPE VICTIM TO PRISON AND LASH- INGS FOR VIOLATING “ILLEGAL MINGLING” LAW. Last December, while the National Organization for Women (NOW) celebrated the success of its campaign for “non-sexist car in- surance,”1 a young woman already brutalized by her neighbors awaited further violence from her state. The previous month, Saudi Arabia’s General Court of Qatif had sentenced her to six months in prison and two hundred lashes for riding in a car with an unrelated male acquaintance, after which she was gang-raped by seven men.2 Her subsequent pardon by King Abdullah3 indicates the power of in- ternational outrage and pressure, but the lack of energy with which Western women’s rights groups participated in that outrage and pres- sure is indicative of a larger and troubling trend. Feminist groups too often do not help women abroad, but they can help, and they should help, because the need for their support is far greater overseas than at home.4 Although the reasons for their choice to prioritize sometimes relatively trivial matters in America over life-threatening issues facing women across the ocean may not be known, its effect is all too appar- ent: less pressure on foreign governments to end the suffering of mil- lions of subjugated Islamic women. With a legal system based on a strict interpretation of Islam,5 Saudi Arabia is a state of gender apartheid. For women permitted to work — they comprise 5.4% of the workforce6 — office buildings are segre- gated.7 For women taught to read — the illiteracy rate for women is ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1 Nat’l Org. -
Female Body and Sexual Politics in Margaret Atwood's Selected Novels Mirenayat, Sayyed Ali; Soofastaei, Elaheh
www.ssoar.info Female body and sexual politics in Margaret Atwood's selected novels Mirenayat, Sayyed Ali; Soofastaei, Elaheh Veröffentlichungsversion / Published Version Zeitschriftenartikel / journal article Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Mirenayat, S. A., & Soofastaei, E. (2015). Female body and sexual politics in Margaret Atwood's selected novels. International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 55, 154-159. https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ ILSHS.55.154 Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer CC BY Lizenz (Namensnennung) zur This document is made available under a CC BY Licence Verfügung gestellt. Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen finden (Attribution). For more Information see: Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences Online: 2015-07-01 ISSN: 2300-2697, Vol. 55, pp 154-159 doi:10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.55.154 © 2015 SciPress Ltd., Switzerland Female Body and Sexual Politics in Margaret Atwood's Selected Novels Elaheh Soofastaei, Sayyed Ali Mirenayat Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication Universiti Putra Malaysia E-mail address: [email protected] [email protected] Keywords: Gender, Politics, Sexuality, Silence, Female Body, Victimization. ABSTRACT. Margaret Atwood is the most prominent Canadian writer. Her feminist ideology is clearly obvious in her novels. She overtly illustrates her feminism view in human rights equality and freedom of choice. Atwood's works are consisted of the fundamental freedom and human rights. In general, her fictions truly portray the women's rights that are equal to men's rights. -
A Research Agenda for an Ecofeminist-Informed Ecological Economics
sustainability Article Transcending the Learned Ignorance of Predatory Ontologies: A Research Agenda for an Ecofeminist-Informed Ecological Economics Sarah-Louise Ruder † and Sophia Rose Sanniti *,† School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] † All authors contributed equally to this work. Received: 6 January 2019; Accepted: 6 March 2019; Published: 11 March 2019 Abstract: As a necessarily political act, the theorizing, debating and enacting of ecological economies offer pathways to radical socio-economic transformations that emphasize the ecological and prioritize justice. In response to a research agenda call for ecological economics, we propose and employ an ecofeminist frame to demonstrate how the logics of extractivist capitalism, which justify gender biased and anti-ecological power structures inherent in the growth paradigm, also directly inform the theoretical basis of ecological economics and its subsequent post-growth proposals. We offer pathways to reconcile these epistemological limitations through a synthesis of ecofeminist ethics and distributive justice imperatives, proposing leading questions to further the field. Keywords: ecological economics; ecofeminism; gender; capitalist-patriarchy; intersectionality; post-growth; transformational change; systems thinking; complexity As white-settlers in the Region of Waterloo, we acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnawbe, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is also situated on the Haldimand Tract: land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometres on each side of the Grand River. We make this statement to act against the erasure of ongoing colonial legacies across Turtle Island and to acknowledge that we contribute to and benefit from the expulsion, assimilation, and genocide of Indigenous Peoples. -
Ethical Trans-Feminism: Berlin's Transgender Individuals' Narratives As Contributions to Ethics of Vegetarian Eco- Feminism
ETHICAL TRANS-FEMINISM: BERLIN’S TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS’ NARRATIVES AS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ETHICS OF VEGETARIAN ECO- FEMINISMS By Anja Koletnik Submitted to Central European University Department of Gender Studies In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Gender Studies Supervisor: Assistant Professor Eszter Timár CEU eTD Collection Second Reader: Professor Allaine Cerwonka Budapest, Hungary 2014 Abstract This thesis will explore multi-directional ethical and political implications of meat non- consumption and cisgender non-conformity. My argument will present how applying transgender as an analytical category to vegetarian eco-feminisms, can be contributive in expanding ethical and political solidarity within feminist projects, which apply gender identity politics to their conceptualizations and argumentations. I will outline the potential to transcend usages of gender identity politics upon a cisnormative canon of vegetarian eco-feminisms lead by Carol J. Adams’ The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990). Adams’s canon of vegetarian eco-feminisms appropriates diet as a central resource of their political projects, which contest speciesism and cis-sexism. Like Adams’ canon, my analysis will consider diet as always having political connotations and implications, both for individuals and their embodiments, within broader socio-political realms. Alongside diet, transgender as an analytical category will be employed within analysis, due to its potential of exposing how genders as social categories and constructs are re-formed. My analysis will be based on narrative interviews, which will explore the multi-directional ethical and political implications of meat non-consumption and cisgender non-conformity among members of Berlin’s transgender / cisgender non-conforming and meat non-consuming subcultures. -
Catharine Mckinnon Award Speech
Unequal Predation, Unequal Protection1 NOW Woman of Vision Award Acceptance Speech Minneapolis, 20 July 2019 © Catharine A. MacKinnon 2019 “Making law do something about women’s experience” – yes, Twiss, that’s it! Wonderful and amazing as this award is, and as much as the recognition that it confers is deeply appreciated, I know that all you activists for women will understand that the real honor for decades of work opposing sexual violation as gender inequality—the real affirmation of the vision—is when others see it the way you see it and stand up against it. As a result of that, we are, finally, in the middle of the first mass movement against sexual abuse in the history of the world. Global #MeToo sprung from the law of sexual harassment, quickly overtook it, and is shifting law, culture, and politics everywhere, bringing down a lot of powerful men who have been violating a lot of us for a long time. It’s only getting up steam. Framed as inequality, combining gender with every social inequality known to man through which it works—prominently race, immigration status, age, and 1 Some themes and locutions in this talk have previously appeared in op-eds published in the Guardian and the New York Times. Catharine A. MacKinnon, How Litigation Laid the Ground for Accountability After #MeToo, GUARDIAN, Dec. 23, 2017, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/23/how-litigation-laid-the-ground- for-accountability-after-metoo; Catharine A. MacKinnon, #MeToo Has Done What the Law Could Not, N.Y. TIMES, Feb. 4, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/opinion/metoo-law-legal-system.html. -
Black Feminist Thought
Praise for the first edition of Black Feminist Thought “The book argues convincingly that black feminists be given, in the words immor- talized by Aretha Franklin, a little more R-E-S-P-E-C-T....Those with an appetite for scholarese will find the book delicious.” —Black Enterprise “With the publication of Black Feminist Thought, black feminism has moved to a new level. Collins’ work sets a standard for the discussion of black women’s lives, experiences, and thought that demands rigorous attention to the complexity of these experiences and an exploration of a multiplicity of responses.” —Women’s Review of Books “Patricia Hill Collins’ new work [is] a marvelous and engaging account of the social construction of black feminist thought. Historically grounded, making excellent use of oral history, interviews, music, poetry, fiction, and scholarly literature, Hill pro- poses to illuminate black women’s standpoint. .Those already familiar with black women’s history and literature will find this book a rich and satisfying analysis. Those who are not well acquainted with this body of work will find Collins’ book an accessible and absorbing first encounter with excerpts from many works, inviting fuller engagement. As an overview, this book would make an excellent text in women’s studies, ethnic studies, and African-American studies courses, especially at the upper-division and graduate levels. As a meditation on the deeper implications of feminist epistemology and sociological practice, Patricia Hill Collins has given us a particular gift.” —Signs “Patricia Hill Collins has done the impossible. She has written a book on black feminist thought that combines the theory with the most immediate in feminist practice. -
Syllabus Example
Course Name: Women and Spirituality Course Number: PHIL 265AE Professor: Phone: Email Address Course Year/Semester: Fall 2018 Course Meeting Location: Course Meeting Day(s)/Time: Tuesdays 4:30-7:10 Office Location: Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30pm and by appointment Course Credit Hours: 4 Course Prerequisite(s): n/a Catalog Description: Course Description: This course is designed as an exploration into the various dimensions and ideologies concerning the role of the feminine in relation to the Divine. The course itself will be divided into two sections. In the first part, traditional religious systems and dogmas will be critically examined as to their methodologies and practices in subsuming the Feminine into a patriarchal view of the universe. In the second half, myths and archetypes from ancient Goddess worship to twentieth century feminist thealogy will be presented as legitimate alternatives for spiritual, sociological and ecological evolution. Special attention will be placed on feminist metaphysical structures for understanding consciousness and reality. Classes will be conducted by means of lecture, primary and secondary readings and class presentations and discussions. A word of warning: Every belief system is a belief system to be transcended. Primary Texts: Sexism and God-Talk , Rosemary Radford Ruether Beyond God the Father, Mary Daly Weaving the Visions, Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ Integrating Ecofeminism Globalization and World Religions, Ruether The Spiral Dance, Star Hawk Her Underground, Celeste and Giancola Primary Readings: (handouts) “The Charge of the Goddess,” Starhawk’s version Women and Madness, “Demeter Revisited,” Phyllis Chesler The Great Cosmic Mother, “The Organic Religion of Early Women,” Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor Nothing Sacred/ Women Respond to Fundamentalism and Terror, Ed.