Feminisms

[faustus]

I've recently been copied into an email correspondence with a writer who claims not to be a feminist. Have you been educated beyond the age of 10? Are you published under a name rather than initials? Do you work other than in a factory, as a teacher, a nurse, a nanny or a mother? Still, her choice, of course. Her life would have been very different without feminism though. I did enjoy that the response to her began Ms---.

And on a related note, an account from a woman who, like Rose Marie in A Very Peculiar Practice, has rejected the patronymic. Curious how such things are now more difficult than they were. I wonder how Peri 6 copes.

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[oursin.livejournal.com]

I have also had the "Are you a medical doctor?" moment

My PhD is actually in history of medicine: my leeches and cupping glasses, let me show you them.

And more seriously, I think there are real problems with the way that feminism gets defined by the media, whether it's in the direction of 'hairylegged humourless bra-burner' or conversely 'pole-dancing as female empowerment' at the other end of the spectrum.