[lit-ideas] Re: The Fully Feminine?
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- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:40:30 EST
Who was it who said if women ran the world no one would die, everyone would
just get hurt really badly once a month....? I have a little book of womens'
quotations somewhere and it's in there, but ....little objects have
disappeared since my daughter's bedroom is on my dining room table....
Julie Krueger
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MN: feminist science fiction -- a imagined civilization in which
everyone's position is: "Go to war? Are you nuts? A child might get
hurt."
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Just to get everybody's goat, I note that Milan Kundera, in
_Immortality_ makes the point that, if women ran wars, there would be
nobody on earth left alive.
It's all well and good to stress nurturing femininity, but the shadow
femininity, the Medea side, is quite operational too. Hell hath no fury
like a woman . . . well you get the idea. Sure, in these lands of
patriarchy men start wars and women endure them, but women are not pure
buttercups either.
I don't understand the impulse to idealize women as nurturing
benevolence incarnate. It feels as if one loopy pedestal is being
exchanged for another. That doesn't even leave room for the darker side
of nurturing, as in Brecht's _Mother Courage_.
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