Posts Tagged ‘ misogyny ’
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Andrea Dworkin, while a freshman at Bennington College, being interviewed by a television crew about the cavity search she was subjected to after she was arrested during an antiwar demonstration, 1965
Source: Fighting for Her Life | by Elaine Blair | The New York Review of Books
On the 25th anniversary of my speech in Beijing, a reflection on the unfinished business of gender equality.
Source: How Far Have Women Come?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) formally seconded the presidential nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.
Source: Ocasio-Cortez seconds Sanders nomination at convention | TheHill
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to reporters after dropping out of the Democratic presidential race in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 5, 2020.Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
It’s important to reckon with the role sexism played in the 2020 Democratic primary.
Source: Elizabeth Warren and the sexism factor, explained – Vox
Teenage activist Greta Thunberg (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AFP/Getty Images)
Why do right-wing men hate Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so much? Researchers have some troubling answers to that question.
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Faith Ringgold: Slave Rape Series #13: Fight to Save Your Life (detail), 1973
In 1974 the performance artist Marina Abramovic stood naked and immobile in a Naples gallery. Next to her was a table with seventy-two objects, including a loaded gun. Beside the objects was a document absolving the audience of responsibility for whatever they might choose to do to her with those objects. Freeing the audience from accountability turned the performance into an exposé of their ethics: they became actors in a scenario as well as witnesses of one another’s behavior. Some of them made violent gestures toward Abramovic—they were not exclusively sexual, but many were. She endured cuts to her skin as well as what one critic described as intimate caresses and minor sexual assaults before the audience erupted into a fight when a participant put the gun to her head. Interestingly, as soon as Abramovic ceased to be immobile and began to walk toward the people around her, they fled the gallery rather than reckoning with what they had done.
Source: Sex, Art, and Misogyny | by Coco Fusco | The New York Review of Books
Above: Hieronymus Bosch, “Garden of Earthly Delights” (detail), via Wikimedia Commons.
Joan Retallack from Alterity, Misogyny & the Agonistic Feminine Above: Hieronymus Bosch, “Garden of Earthly Delights” (detail), via Wikimedia Commons. Antigone . . .
Read the essay here > Source: #MeToo: Joan Retallack | Chicago Review
In her fifth collection, The Carrying, Ada Limón digs deep down to the roots of what she sees happening in the world today—and she is deeply troubled by what she finds.
Source: The Poetry of Perseverance: An Interview With Ada Limón | Poets & Writers
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Sylvia Federici’s new book explains how violence against women was a necessary precondition for capitalism.
Source: How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches – In These Times
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