Inventors and Other Great Women: Toward a Feminist History of Technological Luminaries

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. McGaw
Keyword(s):  
Feminist History ◽  
History Of

Feminist History of Colonial Science

Hypatia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
Londa Schiebinger
Keyword(s):  
Feminist History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Science

Thyra Edwards’s Spanish Civil War Scrapbook

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Anne Donlon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Black History ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
History Of

This essay examines the life of African American social worker Thyra Edwards, who traveled to Spain during its civil war, and returned home to fund-raise and organize. She created a scrapbook, a public-facing record of African American women’s efforts on behalf of Republican Spain, made up of photographs prepared for publication and articles about her efforts circulated in newspapers. This feminist perspective of the “folks at home” is a crucial addendum to black history of the war in Spain. Edwards’s scrapbook is a multifaceted document: a kind of autobiography that is self-conscious in its historical record-keeping, an account of a very broad black Popular Front, and a black feminist history of the Spanish Civil War.

Warmth and Unity with all Women?

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Murdolo
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
History Of

In this paper I discuss the four Women and Labour conferences which were held in Australian capital cities over the seven years between 1978 and 1984. I explore the ways in which the history of Australian feminist activism during this period could be written, questioning in particular the claim that the Women and Labour conferences have been central to the history of Australian feminism. I discuss the ways in which a historical sense could be established, using writings about the conferences as historical ‘evidence’, that race and ethnic divisions between women had not been important to the ‘women's movement’ until 1984. In other words, I challenge the construction of this conference as a turning point – not only in the feminist politicization of immigrant and Aboriginal women, but also in the politicization of all feminists about race and ethnic divisions. More broadly, I am interested in how a history would be written if it aimed to get to the ‘truth’ about racism and about the feminist activism of immigrant women. How would the apparent lack of written ‘evidence’ – at least until 1984 – of immigrant women's feminist activism, and of the awareness of Australian feminists about issues of racism, be written into this history? In addition, I suggest that it is important to the writing of feminist history in Australia that published documentation has been mostly produced by anglo women, and is thus partial and mediated by the lived, embodied experiences of anglo women. Finally, my intention is to interrogate commonly understood narratives about Australian feminist history, to challenge their seamlessness, and to suggest the importance of recognizing the tension within feminist discourses between difference as benign diversity and difference as disruption.

scholarly journals Bọlanle Awẹ: The Matriarch of Feminist History

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Toyin Falola
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
70Th Anniversary ◽  
Honorary Doctorate ◽  
Doctorate Degree ◽  
Great Honor ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ibadan

At the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the University of Ibadan, famous historian, Professor Bọlanle Awẹ was conferred with a well-deserved honorary doctorate degree. For both Professor Awẹ and even Nigeria’s premier university, this great honor is a fitting tribute to mark the anniversary of the institution of learning that has been central to the intellectual history of Nigeria. The University of Ibadan has done well to select Professor Awẹ for this honor. Her earnestness and intelligence are beyond doubts. There is no gainsaying disputing her warmth, her magnetism. I have known her since the 1970s—she remains consistent in the exhibition of positive values, in the promotion of Yoruba culture, and the advancement of the scholarly enterprise.

On Reading Buddhist Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics, and Translating Women’s Bodies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Paris Langenberg
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
Real People ◽  
History Of

Abstract Buddhist monastic law codes (vinaya) are rich sources for writing the history of the early nuns’ community. If we hope to encounter these ascetic women of long ago as full real people, however, we must apply an intentional, transparent, critically informed, and sometimes interstitial reading strategy, not a theoretically naïve historiography cloaked in philological rigor. Confronting head on the issue of what the vinaya actually can tell us about the early nuns’ community, this essay offers a survey of hermeneutical approaches in vinaya studies. It articulates a revised approach based on accepted strategies within vinaya studies enhanced by innovations in the fields of religious studies, gender studies, historical linguistics, comparative law, and dharmaśāstra studies. It also analyzes several vinaya passages based on this revised approach, including a text legislating the nuns’ use of what appears to be an ancient tampon when they are menstruating. Finally, it offers observations about the possible relationship between nuns’ vinayas as texts and the realia of the early nuns’ community. These observations include the possibility that the ancient Buddhist nunnery was a place where monastic women exercised certain types of agency as practitioners, interpreters, and even authors of monastic discipline, despite their oft-mentioned subordination to the male community.

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