A depressing but all too predictable report on sexual violence against women accompanying unrest in the Ivory Coast. (From Amnesty International)
A new blog, subtitled “News feminist philosophers can use”, and simply called Feminist Philosophers. (But in case the second word puts you off – it has its feet very firmly on the ground.)
Lest that should all prove a bit too depressing, the sort of thing that I’d love to see a great deal more of on the web: a scholar has transcribed, and presented for all to read, My Booke of Rememenberanceâ€(sic): The Autobiography of Elizabeth Isham (PDF), who lived from 1609 to 1654, a lively period in English history of course, but her life was very inwardly focused, this fitting very much within the framework of spiritual biography.
One of the other interesting things about her is that she seems to have consciously chosen to stay single.
And she and her family suffer those tragedies so terribly typical of the time:
my sister broke her thigh againe which was a great grife to my frindes, who presently sent for Mr. Hales a man very skilfull in the art of bonseting but my Sister soune as she hard or saw his coming her teeth would chatter in her head for very feare hauing so much experiance of broken bones he stayed not long from her (because as he confessed he was troubled in his sleepe of her) but came againe to see her, where he found the bone amiss & was fa[i]nt to break it to make it right…”
(Hat-tip to Sharon of Early Modern Notes.)
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