Over on My London Your London, Jon has a review of Notes from Underground, by Eric Bogosian performed, very nicely, by Will Adamsdale. Sounds like a good show.
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Theatre Carnival of FeministsCarnival of Feminists No 25
October 19, 2006 – 2:12 am
Welcome to the anniversary edition! Yep, the carnival is one year old, but, I think, well beyond its wobbly baby steps. Twenty-four bloggers have hosted the carnival; there’ve been (at a very rough count) about 1,000 posts linked and commented on, and, from some of the figures that have been reported to me, probably approaching 100,000 page impressions. That must translate into thousands of readers. You’ve all contributed to the success of the carnival. Thank you!
(Should you be catching up, you can find a complete listing of carnivals down the right of the home page.)
I thought it not unreasonable to bring it back “home” for the anniversary edition. I’d welcome comments, suggestions for the future, and of course, always, new volunteers to host. (Ragnell on Ragnell’s Written World has just collected some thoughts about the experience of hosting.)
You don’t have to be a “big” blogger; you don’t have to be any particular “type” of feminist – I aim only for as broad a mix in philosophy, geography and speciality as possible. Then, while I have some suggestions as to how to proceed, and will always be available to answer questions and help out, the carnival will be yours for that edition, to do with it as you will.
So enough of the navel-gazing; to the carnival proper…
I’m going to privilege this time one sort of post that I’d really like to see more of in the carnival – celebrations of women’s contributions throughout history (including recent history). So often, it seems, women who were prominent in their own times are lost to societal memory within a generation or two. Yet they can be an inspiration, a source of ideas, hope.
WOMEN OF HISTORY
First, a celebration of lots of women: on Feminish, parts one and two explore The March of the Women, 5/6 October 1789. Was the French Revolution a Women’s Revolution?
More personally, on Walking the Berkshires, Tim Abbott reflects on his “Aunt, Het”, Esther Gracie Ogden, suffragette. Her Christmas poem for 1914 read in part: “When the vote is won and the talk is done the jokes she will not resent, / For you can bet we’ll all vote for Het, when she runs for President!”
And Sappho on The Sappho Manifesto, celebrates her Revolutionary of the Week, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Jennings, who played a big part in getting public transport in New York racially desegregated.
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A site to explore
October 18, 2006 – 11:32 pm
… Bluestocking Women Writers in the 18th century.
Great content, and in interesting exploration of hyperlink structure.
Orange – the Internet NON-service provider
October 18, 2006 – 7:56 am
Yet again, I’ve been without internet at home for 36 hours due to Orange’s inability to maintain the absolute basic – a broadband connection. They told Linksys last night that they’d fixed it after 12 hours or so (so I wasted half an hour or so checking my router), but they hadn’t. For practical reasons I can’t leave them yet, but should you be thinking about joining a UK ISP my advice would be NOT Orange.
Apologies to anyone who has been expecting me to do something, including respond to an email. I’ll have to leave for work shortly, so it will be 12 hours or so before I get to anything but the most urgent.
History Carnival – with lots of women’s history
October 15, 2006 – 10:58 pm
Now up on Clioweb History Carnival No XLI. A great collection, and plenty of women’s history – some of it even positive history about women’s successes (plus the odd infanticide case…)
Powerful women of the Pacific
October 14, 2006 – 11:04 pm
One of the new exhibitions at the British Museum, Power & Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific, has some lovely images of powerful women.
There is a reproduction of a drawing of Paetini, who was “thought to be the granddaughter of Keatonui, the chief who met Russian expedition of 1804 in the Marquesas”. Important women such as her had up to three chief husbands, and “a number of secondary husbands (pekio) often drawn from the servant class”. They often carried out domestic work. All children were considered to be “fathered” by the most important husbands.
One of the pekios drawn in 1804 doesn’t look very domestic. Mufau, it is said, was greatly admired for his physique, tatooing and warrior prowess. Expedition artist drew and measured every aspecg of his body for comparison with Greek statues. Must have really upset the visiting European men, one suspects…
I’ve written more about the exhibition on My London Your London. Why the fearsome gods? is the question I’m asking.
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