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Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman
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My great grandmother got pregnant when she was 15. This was in early twentieth century Canada. She was sent to a home for unmarried mothers to have the baby. I read her journal entry about it recently. She says that she didn’t realize it at the time, but she’s since come to understand that during the actual delivery, the doctor and the lady who ran the house didn’t give her all the support she needed, and it was absolutely intended as punishment for what she did. Even though the encounter that led to her pregnancy sounds dubiously consensual based on her journal.
fiona apple is releasing a new song next week about the impact of pre-trial detention on especially Black mothers.visit lethergohome to learn about to learn about the injustices perpetrated against the 160,000 women and girls incarcerated in the united states every day and see a preview of fiona's upcoming song.
feminist silkscreen posters from See Red Women’s Workshop (1974-1990)
today I learned that a Chinese woman named Chien-Shiung Wu proved quantum entanglement before anyone else. have I ever read about her in the pop physics books I read? no. this makes me so mad but also that's fucking awesome
“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
Fulvia
(c. 83 BCE-40 BCE) The first non-mythological woman to appear on Roman coins. She was married three times (Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio, Mark Antony) and actively involved in all her husband’s careers. She testified against the murderer of her first husband, and inherited several street gangs. She unsuccessfully plotted against Octavian in retaliation for divorcing her daughter Clodia. She was exiled to Greece and died. One of her sons by Mark Antony, Antyllus was executed after the Battle of Actium, while the other Jullus committed suicide after participating in a plot with Julia (the daughter of Augustus).
She’s not as well known, due to being overshadowed by both Livia Drusilla and Cleopatra (who was also involved with Mark Antony).
Women’s History Month Book Recommendations
-Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter
-Radium Girls by Kate Moore
-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
-All Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930 by Andrea Barnett
-Bessie Perri: Queen of the Bootleggers by Rose Keefe (Available as E-Book and on Absolute Crime’s website)
These are some of my favourite classic female authors.
Two of them are czech, as you can see. The first one is Květa Legátová who wrote Želary and Jozova Hanule. The film Želary, based on Jozova Hanule (i know, the situation with the names is kind of messy), was nominated for the Oscars in the early 2000's.
The second one is Gabriela Preissová who was a czech writer and playwriter and two of her best known plays are Její pastorkyňa and Gazdina roba.
Both of them wrote about women and their lives. Gabriela is realistic writer and Květa is very poetic.
Especially Květa Legátová is just brilliant and I think that it should be possible to find a copy of her books translated into English. If you find it, read it. Please. I need people to know about her.
favourite female authors | requested by @shirewalker
when virginia woolf said "who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?" i felt it in the deepest corners of my soul i didn't even know existed.
Stack Saturday | Fiction or Nonfiction?
I’m usually more of a fiction reader, but lately I’ve been drawn to a few nonfiction titles, most of them related to history. Maybe with all this extra time I can actually put some time into absorbing all of this new information - I’ve always been interested in learning about lesser known figures so this might be the perfect opportunity. Which do you prefer?