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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Stevie Nicks
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – On Prostitution – Chelsea Geddes
Powerful piece.
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Excerpts from Elizabeth Stanton’s address to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. “Some men tell us we must be patient and persuasive; that we must be womanly. My friends, what is man’s idea of womanliness? Is it to have a manner which pleases him- quiet, deferential, submissive, approaching him as a subject does a […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Laurie Penny
“Adolescence, for a woman, is the slow realization that you are not considered as fully human as you hoped. You are a body first, and your body is not yours alone: whether or not you are attracted to men, men and boys will believe they have a claim on your body, and the state gets […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Cordelia Fine
Big fan of Ms.Fine. 🙂 “My risk of an unwanted pregnancy and being denied an abortion is not a random fact about me. It’s a fundamental part of what it means to be born female, shoved into the class “woman” and hence devalued as an autonomous human being. It will remain so even when […]
Dead Wild Roses: Making Feminism Acceptable – bell hooks
Often when arguing about feminism on the internet, I hear from my opponents – well there are just sooo many types of feminism – how can my brain handle all this variation. Let’s just simplify the notion a touch. There is the feminism that pleases men and there is the feminism that doesn’t. The feminism […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of The Day – The Separation of Sex and Politics – Sheila Jeffreys
“By some mysterious process all that pertains to sex in this society has been separated off from politics, even by those who would consider themselves socialist and radicals. In order to make sexual practice a private enclave of individual delight, sexuality has been seen as somehow removed from the effects of sexism, racism, any oppression […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin
“Feminism requires precisely what misogyny destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.”
-Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating.Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Andrea Dworkin, DWR Feminist Quote of the Day, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – The Gender Binary – Lierre Keith
What is gender and how does if affect our society? Lierre Keith provides some insight and clarity regarding the topic while casting some shade on the po-mo obfuscation of said topic.
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Dead Wild Roses: Joanna Russ – Excerpt from ‘The Female Man’
It is always nice to get some quality writing about that mysterious realm of Living as Female in our society. Joanna Russ wrote this in 1975 it is chilling how much still applies. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Being Female in Society, DWR Feminist Quote of the Day, Joanna Russ
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Dworkin on Pornography
In the United States, [pornography] is an $8-billion trade in sexual exploitation. It is women turned into subhumans, beaver, pussy, body parts, genitals exposed, buttocks, breasts, mouths open and throats penetrated, covered in semen, pissed on, shitted on, hung from light fixtures, tortured, maimed, bleeding, disemboweled, killed. It is some creature
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – The Night and Danger – Andrea Dworkin
“In the United States, with its distinctly racist character, the very fear of the dark is manipulated, often subliminally, into fear of black, of black men in particular, so that the traditional association between rape and black men that is our national heritage is fortified. In this context, the imagery
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – The Gender of Sound – Anne Carson
Ah..patriarchy the gift that keeps on giving – like metastasizing cancer.. ;/ “Madness and witchery… are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public, in ancient as well as modern contexts. Consider how many female celebrities of classical mythology, literature and cult make themselves
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Mary Daly
“Male propagation of the idea that men, too, are feminine – particularly through feminine behaviour by males – distracts attention from the fact that femininity is a man-made construct, having essentially nothing to do with femaleness.” -“Gyn/Ecology” Mary Daly p.49 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Quote of the Day,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day Gerda Lerner – The Creation of Patriarchy
The Creation of Patriarchy, Volume 1 (1986/ 1987) by Gerda Lerner Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Quote of the Day, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Amanda M. Gengler – On Consuming Femininity
“Advertisers must convince young women that they are in need of constant improvement—largely to get and keep boys’ attention—without threatening young women’s views of themselves as intelligent, self-directed, and equal. Buzz words like “empowerment,” “self-determination,” and “independence” are sprinkled liberally across their pages. But this seemingly progressive rhetoric is used
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rachel Moran on “Empowering” Prostitution
“…But I do feel a special place of contempt for the absolute army of twenty-something, socially privileged, very well educated, young white women, who speak about prostitution in terms of “sex work” and “empowerment” and this utter nonsense when they have spent years educating themselves… in order to keep themselves
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