La editorial Renacimiento, en su colección “Espuela de Plata”, ha devuelto a las librerías la novela A instancia de parte de Mercedes Formica (1913-2002), la escritora y abogada gaditana que denunció la alarmante situación jurídica en la que se encontraban las mujeres españolas del pasado siglo.

Publicada en 1955 y galardonada con el premio Cid de la Cadena SER, en sus páginas se plasma, concretamente, el problema del adulterio, castigado solo en el caso femenino, y el infierno que soportaban las mujeres acusadas de ello, al sumarse, a las consecuencias que acarreaba el delito, la humillante figura del depósito de la mujer casada, un precepto legal que se activaba cuando un matrimonio se quebraba, y que había existido desde siempre –también se mantuvo en la Ley de divorcio de 2 de marzo de 1932–. En este sentido, la mujer pasaba a residir en un convento de arrepentidas, en el caso de la adúltera, o en un domicilio asignado por el marido, padre, hermano o tutor, alejado del que había sido su hogar (“la casa del marido”), bajo tutela de un depositario y con la consiguiente pérdida de bienes y de los hijos, sin tener en cuenta que, quizá, pudiese ser inocente.

compartimos 10 novedades feministas que conocimos en la 44ª edición de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires que te servirán para comprender y deconstruir el patriarcado: https://culturacolectiva.com/letras/lib ... -machismo/

morla escribió: 25 Sep 2018, 18:27 Terminado el de El segundo sexo, me encantó. Es increíble lo actual que parece.

To be a woman in America at the close of the 20th century—what good fortune. That's what we keep hearing, anyway. The barricades have fallen, politicians assure us. Women have "made it," Madison Avenue cheers. Women's fight for equality has "largely been won," Time magazine announces. Enroll at any university, join any law firm, apply for credit at any bank. Women have so many opportunities now, corporate leaders say, that we don't really need equal opportunity policies. Women are so equal now, lawmakers say, that we no longer need an Equal Rights Amendment. Women have "so much," former President Ronald Reagan says, that the White House no longer needs to appoint them to higher office. Even American Express ads are saluting a woman's freedom to charge it. At last, women have received their full citizenship papers.

And yet . . .

“The idea of transgender is provocative. On a personal level, it allows for a continuum of gendered expression. On a political level, it never moves off this continuum to an existence in which gender is truly transcended. Its supposedly iconoclastic rebellion against traditional gender confinement is more style than substance. What good is a gender outlaw who is still abiding by the law of gender?” http://janiceraymond.com/the-transsexual-empire/

The pamphlet was later revised and then published in The Black Woman, an anthology edited by Toni Cade Bambara in 1970. A revised version was also included in the 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan. Beal's essay talks about the misconceptions and troubles which come about when one tries to analyze the role of a black female in society. The pamphlet covers many different aspects of life and how they pertained to black women or "non-white women" compared to how they pertain to white women, white men and non-white men. One particular area in the pamphlet is entitled ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION OF BLACK WOMEN; this section briefly talks about the economics of black women and how on average in 1969, a non-white woman made approximately three times less than a white man. Beal thus exposes the concrete economic raison d'être of both racism and sexism... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Je ... and_Female

Conceived as a radical feminist "Voyage" of woman becoming herself, it's made up of three "Passages." The 1st denounces the reversals & deceptions ("mind pollution") of patriarchal disciplines (including "Godfather" theology) & exuberantly sets out to "discover" the true "Croneology" behind that male mystification. The 2nd, "the most somber part of the Journey," analyzes Goddess-murder (and the murder of the Goddess in every woman) thru the "Sado-Rituals" of five specific historic atrocities: Indian suttee, Chinese footbinding, African genital mutilation, European witchburning, & American gynecology & psychotherapy (gynecology of the mind practiced by the-rapists)... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/643679.Gyn_Ecology

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference—difference according to sex, race, and economic status... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329 ... earch=true

La obra de Sheila Jeffreys —teórica feminista lesbiana de origen británico, afincada en Australia— parte de la tesis de que la lucha política de las lesbianas tiene que ver más con el movimiento contra la opresión de las mujeres, es decir, con el feminismo, que con la reivindicación de los homosexuales varones por sus derechos y la cultura y teorización de su visibilidad. El olvido de esta diferencia implica para el lesbianismo un distanciamiento del feminismo. Jeffreys intenta demostrar que la actual construcción del lesbianismo supone su ocultación bajo una homologación a la homosexualidad masculina y, simultáneamente, su alejamiento del feminismo.

Sheila Jeffreys rechaza las relaciones de dominación-sumisión, aun entre lesbianas, y reivindica relaciones s***ales y amorosas igualitarias, así como el sentido de la colectividad y la comunidad, en primer lugar con otras lesbianas, pero también con las otras mujeres, cuya amistad motiva la lucha feminista.

Jeffreys discusses the s*xual revolution of the 1960s, arguing against the view that it was a "positive development for women." Among other topics, Jeffreys discusses pedophilia. She criticizes the activist Tom O'Carroll and his book Paedophilia: The Radical Case (1980).

SnoopyCrisprCas escribió: 03 Ene 2019, 18:14 @Mirall De 'El diario de Carlota' no hicieron una película que era un auténtico despropósito?