Women's Rights & Issues

It feeds into the groomed belief that they really are essentially better than the other half that holds up the sky. Not all men, but a majority. Or there wouldn't be GENERATIONS of Amy Coney Barretts now in government.

Where the world would be -- without males choosing to see difference as a deficit, without males presuming any privilege to 'name' themselves superior (economically, socially, culturally, spiritually, legally) by use of predatory force -- is Nature.

I read Dale Spender's books back in the late 70's. Kept her books front and center in the feminist section of my library. Being a student of linguistics, I particularly like her Man Made Language. As a teacher of h.s. and college English, I made it a point to distill her major ideas about language used to dominate, and how writing and publishing equalize women in the world of ideas.







It was through Spender that I learned of how Matilda Jocelyn Gage was the statistical, researcher that powered Elizabeth Cady Stanton's First Wave of American Feminism. I'll never forget how she rearranged my brain cells away from the male HIStorian mansplaining of women's history.





Later, in the mid-80's, I read Marilyn French's three-volume World History of Women, From Eve to Dawn, now four volumes.