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under the thimble
sorted cloth and scissors, needle, thread, thinking to amuse myself, but found a lifetime’s industry instead. I sewed a girl under a single star—cross-stitch, silver silk— running after childhood’s bouncing ball.
In loving memory of a certain Miss Glennon
sorted cloth and scissors, needle, thread, thinking to amuse myself, but found a lifetime’s industry instead. I sewed a girl under a single star—cross-stitch, silver silk— running after childhood’s bouncing ball.
In loving memory of a certain Miss Glennon
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This magazine is an
experiment, a documentary,
a question and an answer,
a record, a journey.
Read into it what you will,
enjoy the view.
Cheryl and Kayleigh
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if I’ve missed the point,
but I thought feminism was about demanding
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but I thought feminism was about demanding
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Emmeline Pankhurst
‘‘
‘‘
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Women
are
50 per cent of
the
population,
if
there
was
anything
resembling
gender
equality
in
Britain
today,
then
women
would
do
around
half
of
most
jobs
throughout
society
earning
the
same
as
men.
Women
are
50 per cent of
the
population,
if
there
was
anything
resembling
gender
equality
in
Britain
today,
then
women
would
do
around
half
of
most
jobs
throughout
society
earning
the
same
as
men.
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Women
are
50 per cent of
the
population,
if
there
was
anything
resembling
gender
equality
in
Britain
today,
then
women
would
do
around
half
of
most
jobs
throughout
society
earning
the
same
as
men.
Women
are
50 per cent of
the
population,
if
there
was
anything
resembling
gender
equality
in
Britain
today,
then
women
would
do
around
half
of
most
jobs
throughout
society
earning
the
same
as
men.
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Mrs Darwin
7 April 1852,
Went to the Zoo,
I said to Him -
Something about that Chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.
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‘The word family is rooted in the Latin word for domestic slave; ‘familia’ was the total number of slaves belonging to one man.’
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‘The word family is rooted in the Latin word for domestic slave; ‘familia’ was the total number of slaves belonging to one man.’
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Feminism is used for everything these days, except the fight for true equality –
to s
ell t
rain
ers,
to ju
stif
y bo
dy m
utila
tion
s, to
mak
e w
omen
mak
e po
rn,
to h
elp
men
get
off
rap
e ch
arge
s,
to e
nsur
e w
omen
fee
l the
y ha
ve s
elf-
resp
ect
No w
onde
r it’s
bei
ng u
sed
as a
rea
son
for
bom
bing
wom
en a
nd c
hild
ren
too.
beca
use
they
use
a s
elf-
este
em-e
nhan
cing
bra
nd o
f sh
ampo
o.
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Feminism is used for everything these days, except the fight for true equality –
to s
ell t
rain
ers,
to ju
stif
y bo
dy m
utila
tion
s, to
mak
e w
omen
mak
e po
rn,
to h
elp
men
get
off
rap
e ch
arge
s,
to e
nsur
e w
omen
fee
l the
y ha
ve s
elf-
resp
ect
No w
onde
r it’s
bei
ng u
sed
as a
rea
son
for
bom
bing
wom
en a
nd c
hild
ren
too.
beca
use
they
use
a s
elf-
este
em-e
nhan
cing
bra
nd o
f sh
ampo
o.
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‘‘Au
nt Jen
nifer’s tigers p
ran
ce across a
screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. Th
ey do n
ot fear th
e men
benea
th th
e trees They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. Au
nt Jen
nifer’s f n
gers f utterin
g throu
gh h
er wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The m
assive
weight o
f Uncle
’s wedding b
and S
its
hea
vily
up
on A
un
t Je
nn
ifer
’s h
an
d .
W
hen Aunt is dead,
her terrif ed hands will lie Still
ringed
with th
e ordeals s
he was m
astered
by. T
he
tige
rs in
th
e p
an
el t
ha
t sh
e m
ad
e
W
ill go on prancin
g, proud and unafra
id.’’
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‘‘Au
nt Jen
nifer’s tigers p
ran
ce across a
screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. Th
ey do n
ot fear th
e men
benea
th th
e trees They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. Au
nt Jen
nifer’s f n
gers f utterin
g throu
gh h
er wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The m
assive
weight o
f Uncle
’s wedding b
and S
its
hea
vily
up
on A
un
t Je
nn
ifer
’s h
an
d .
W
hen Aunt is dead,
her terrif ed hands will lie Still
ringed
with th
e ordeals s
he was m
astered
by. T
he
tige
rs in
th
e p
an
el t
ha
t sh
e m
ad
e
W
ill go on prancin
g, proud and unafra
id.’’
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‘‘Feminism offers you the latest deals in lifestyle improvement, from the bedroom to
the boardroom, from guilt-free fucking to the innocent hop-skip all the way to the shopping mall – I don’t diet so it’s ok! I’m not deluded! I can buy what I like! Feminism™ is the perfect
accompaniment to femme-capital™.’’
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‘‘Feminism offers you the latest deals in lifestyle improvement, from the bedroom to
the boardroom, from guilt-free fucking to the innocent hop-skip all the way to the shopping mall – I don’t diet so it’s ok! I’m not deluded! I can buy what I like! Feminism™ is the perfect
accompaniment to femme-capital™.’’
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‘‘You are your breasts.’’
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Equal
pay
may
be
enshrined
in
the
law
but
women
on
average
earn
18
percent
less
than
men.
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Equal
pay
may
be
enshrined
in
the
law
but
women
on
average
earn
18
percent
less
than
men.
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Working without the pressure of success
Not having to be in shows with men
Having an escape from the art world in your 4 free-lance jobs
Knowing your career might pick up after you’re eighty
Being reassured that whatever kind of art you make it will be labeled feminine
Not being stuck in a tenured teaching position
Seeing your ideas live on in the work of others
Having the opportunity to choose between career and motherhood
Not having to choke on those big cigars or paint in Italian suits
Having more time to work when your mate dumps you for someone younger
Being included in revised versions of art history
Not having to undergo the embarrassment of being called a genius
Getting your picture in the art magazines wearing a gorilla suita public service message from
GUERRILLA GIRLS conscience of the art world
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Working without the pressure of success
Not having to be in shows with men
Having an escape from the art world in your 4 free-lance jobs
Knowing your career might pick up after you’re eighty
Being reassured that whatever kind of art you make it will be labeled feminine
Not being stuck in a tenured teaching position
Seeing your ideas live on in the work of others
Having the opportunity to choose between career and motherhood
Not having to choke on those big cigars or paint in Italian suits
Having more time to work when your mate dumps you for someone younger
Being included in revised versions of art history
Not having to undergo the embarrassment of being called a genius
Getting your picture in the art magazines wearing a gorilla suita public service message from
GUERRILLA GIRLS conscience of the art world
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To be blessed
said the old woman
is to live and work
so hard
God’s love
washes right through you
like milk through a cow
To be blessed
said the dark red tulip
is to knock their eyes out
with the slug of lust
implied by
your up-ended skirt
To be blessed
said the dog
is to have a pinch
of God
inside you
and all the other
dogs can smell it
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‘‘I myself have never been able to find out
precisely what feminism is: I only know that
people call me a feminist whenever I express
sentiments that differentiate me from a
doormat or a prostitute,’’
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...and ends with your arms in his sink”
It begins when you sink in his arms...
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...and ends with your arms in his sink”
It begins when you sink in his arms...
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I know you are reading this poemlate, before leaving your office of the one intense yellow lamp-spot
and the darkening window in the lassitude of a building faded to
quiet long after rush-hour.
I know you are reading this poemstanding up in a bookstore far from the ocean on a grey day of
early spring, faint flakes driven across the plains' enormous spaces
around you.
I know you are reading this poem
in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where
the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed and the open valise
speaks of flight but you cannot leave yet.
I know you are reading this poem
as the underground train loses momentum and before running up
the stairs toward a new kind of love your life has never allowed.
I know you are reading this poem
by the light of the television screen where soundless images jerk
and slide while you wait for the newscast from the intifada.
I know you are reading this poemin a waiting-room of eyes met and unmeeting,
of identity with strangers
.
I know you are reading this poem by fluorescent light in the boredom and fatigue of the young who
are counted out, count themselves out, at too early an age.
I know you are reading this poem
through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters
beyond all meaning yet you read on because
even the alphabet is precious.
I know you are reading this poem
as you pace beside the stove warming milk, a crying child on your
shoulder, a book in your hand because life is short
and you too are thirsty.
I know you are reading this poem
which is not in your language guessing at some words while others
keep you reading and I want to know which words they are.
I know you are reading this poem
listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope turning
back once again to the task you cannot refuse.
I know you are reading this poem
because there is nothing else left to read there where you have
landed, stripped as you are.
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Mrs Darwin
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(1999)
The World’s Wife
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Rich, A.
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(1999)
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Bloomsbury, United Kingdom
Patrick Burgoyne
(11/02/2011)
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: a cautionary tale?
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