Comments on: The feminist takes a bath & her head explodes https://iwilldare.com/2010/03/the-feminist-takes-a-bath-her-head-explodes/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: ep https://iwilldare.com/2010/03/the-feminist-takes-a-bath-her-head-explodes/#comment-25075 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:10:10 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8880#comment-25075 I’ve been reading a lot about Eleanor of Aquitaine recently and she was fighting the same fight – perceptions of the role of woman – in the 12th century. We’ve come a long way baby? Not. The fight is still out there.

]]> By: Ellen https://iwilldare.com/2010/03/the-feminist-takes-a-bath-her-head-explodes/#comment-25074 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:02:38 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8880#comment-25074 Read it as soon as I was old enough to be issued an adult library card (eleven, twelve?). Read that and The Female Eunuch and every other feminist thing I could get my hands on. This when they were still fairly new and the world was, I think, or at least seemed to me to be a more optimistic place. Things were gonna get better, it was just a matter of time… Now things don’t look so good to me.

But of that suite of books on feminism from that period, the one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest is Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex”. I read Friedan, back in the day, and thought, yeah, oh, right, well duh. Then I read Firestone and my head exploded.

Never been the same since. Every seventh grader should be given a copy of The Dialectic on their first day of junior high school. It would change the world in a big way.

]]> By: Geetha https://iwilldare.com/2010/03/the-feminist-takes-a-bath-her-head-explodes/#comment-25073 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:30:48 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8880#comment-25073 Woah..I really need to read this book..Just reading the excerpts made my blood pressure rise..” The primary task of making homes??” What bull shit..What would be the primary task of men then? If such a comment was made now, he’d get hate mail by the truckloads..

]]> By: kim https://iwilldare.com/2010/03/the-feminist-takes-a-bath-her-head-explodes/#comment-25072 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:25:48 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8880#comment-25072 awesome. I picked up a copy in the used/reject section at the library a few months ago and haven’t gotten a chance to read it yet. it just jumped up to second-to-next to read.

]]> By: amy a. https://iwilldare.com/2010/03/the-feminist-takes-a-bath-her-head-explodes/#comment-25062 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:03:12 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8880#comment-25062 the other thing that blows my mind about this is that it only happened 60 some years ago – my mom and grandma’s generation. every day i forget the crap they had to go through so i can make my own choices.

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