Women's Issues

[maryz]

Tonight at the end of the PBS News Hour, Gwen Ifill talked with Cokie Roberts about her new book, Capital Dames  It's not listed on BookTV yet, but I bet it will be before long. It's about influential women during the Civil War.

[MaryPage]

I am a really huge fan of Gwen Ifill.[/b]

[jane]

I am too.  I think and Judy Woodruff do a great job of giving the News WITHOUT the screaming, talking over others, and hyperbole of some of the other so-called News Channels.

[MaryPage]

Absolutely on the same page you are!  In fact, our local paper printed this letter from me yesterday morning:

Oh, my!  It has been like a breath of sweet spring air to read some of the editorials, columns, and letters written recently.   Suddenly it seems we are hearing from a sane and rational sector of our community, folks who prefer to lay out the Facts concerning any given matter and then the pros and cons of how we need to deal with those facts:  what actions we can and/or cannot take. 
I had truly come to wonder if some odorless gas had been loosed upon our county and erased the thinking mechanisms inside the skulls of many fellow citizens who had breathed deeply of it.  So very many letters and columns full of slangy slogans spitting out slanders and hatred for politicians, candidates and ideas the writers are obviously scared to bits of at the same time they have no true knowledge about or well thought out alternative suggestions for.  The most amazing phenomenon is that these same authors seem to have no idea how ridiculous they sound!
Thanks to Lee Caudle and Allen Sampson, among others, for restoring my faith in our system of government.  Didn’t Winston Churchill say that “you can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else!”
Sigh!  It would be lovely if we could skip the “everything else!”

[Steph]

Ah Winston, always the appropriate words.. I did like him so much.

[BarbStAubrey]

[BarbStAubrey]

1.Gambarini (de), Elisabetta (1731-1765, England)
2. Garūta, Lūcija (1902-1977, Latvia)
3. Gipps, Ruth (1921-1999, England)
4. Glanville-Hicks, Peggy (1912-1990, Austria)
5. Gonzaga, Chiquinha (1847-1935, Brazil)
6. Grandval (de), Clémence (1828-1907, France)
7.Grøndahl-Backer, Agathe (1847-1907, Norway)
8. Gubitosi, Emilia (1887-1972, Italy)
9.Guy-Rhodes, Helen (Guy d’Hardelot) (1858-1936, France)
10.Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny(1805-1847, Germany)

11. Farrenc, Louise (1804-1875, France)
12. Fuchs, Lillian (1901-1995, USA)
13. Gail, Sophie (1775-1819, France)

14. Carreño, Teresa (1853-1917, Venezuela)
15. Carwithen, Doreen (1922-2003, England)
16. Casulana, Maddalena (c.1544 – c.1590, Italy)
17. Chaminade, Cécile (1857-1944, France)
18. Clarke, Rebecca (1886-1979, England)
19. Colbran, Isabella (1785-1845, Spain)
20. Demessieux, Jeanne Marie Madeleine (1921-1968, France)
21. Dring, Madeleine (1923-1977, England)
22. Dussek, Sophia Giustina (1775-1831, Scotland)
23. Eckhardt-Gramatté, Sophie-Carmen (1901-1974,Canada)

24. Bonds, Margaret (1913-1972, USA)
25. Bottini, Marianna (1802-1858, Italy)
26. Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918, France)
27. Boulanger, Nadia (1887-1979, France)
28. Boyle, Ina (1889-1967, Ireland)
29. Caccini, Francesca (1587-1641, Italy) *

30. Bembo, Antonia (c.1643 – before 1715, Italy)
31. Bertin, Louise (1805-1877, France)
32. Blahetka, Leopoldine (1810-1887, Austria)
33. Bon, Anna (c.1739-?, Italy)
34. Bonis, Mélanie (Mel Bonis) (1858-1937, France)
35. Bosmans, Henriëtte Hilda (1895-1952, Netherlands)

36. Agnesi Pinottini, Maria Teresa (1720-1795, Italy)
37. Aulin, Valborg (1860-1928, Sweden)
38. Alexandra, Liana (1947-2011, Romania)
39. Andrée, Elfrida (1841-1929, Sweden)
40. Auster, Lydia (1912-1993, Estonia)
41. Bacewicz, Grażyna (1909-1969, Poland)
42. Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Tekla (1834-1861, Poland)
43. Barraine, Elsa (1910-1999, France)
44. Bauer, Marion (1882-1955, USA)
45. Beach, Amy (1867-1944, USA)

46. Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677, Italy)
47. Suesse, Nadine Dana (1909-1987, USA)
48. Szymanowska, Maria Aghate (1789-1831, Poland)
49. Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983, France)
50. Tegnér, Alice (1864-1943, Sweden)
51. Viardot, Pauline (1821-1910, France)
52. White, Maude Valérie (1855-1937, England)
53. Wilhelmina (Wilhelmine, Friederike Sophie), Princess of Prussia (1709-1758, Germany)
54. Williams,  Grace Mary (1906-1977, Wales)
55. Qu, Xixian (1919-2008, China)

56. Müller-Hermann, Johanna (1868-1941, Austria)
57. Musgrave, Thea (1928, Scotland)
58. Netzel, Laura Clarence (N. Lago)(1839-1927, Sweden)
59. Pejačević, Dora (1885-1923, Croatia)
60. Price, Florence Beatrice (1887-1953, USA)
61. Renié, Henriette (1875-1956, France)
62. Schumann-Wieck, Clara (1819-1896, Germany)
63. Senfter, Johanna (1879-1961, Germany)
64. Smith, Alice Mary (1839-1884, England)
65. Smyth, Ethel (1858-1944, England)

66. Röntgen-Maier, Amanda  (1853-1894, Sweden)
67. Malibran, Maria (1808-1836,Spain)
68. Martinez (von), Marianne (1744-1812, Austria)
69. Mayer, Emilie (1821-1883, Germany)
70. Meda, Bianca Maria (1665-1700, Italy)
71. Montgeroult (de), Hélène (1764-1836, France)

72. Leonarda, Isabella (1620-1704, Italy)
73. Levina, Zara Alexandrovna (1906-1976,Russia)
74. Lombardini-Sirmen, Maddalena Laura (1745-1818, Italy)
75. Lund, Signe (1868-1950, Norway)
76. Maconchy, Elizabeth Violet (1907-1994, England)
77. Mahler, Alma (1879-1964, Austria)

78. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179, Germany)
79. Jaëll, Marie (1846-1925, France)
80. Jacquet de la Guerre, Élisabeth-Claude  (1665-1729, France)
81. Holmès, Augusta  (1847-1903, France)
82. Kaprálová, Vítězslava (1915-1940, Czech Republic)
83. Kassia (805/810 - before 865, Byzantine Empire)
84. Kessler, Minuetta (1914-2002, Canada)
85. Kinkel, Johanna (1810-1858, Germany)
86. Lang, Josephine (1815-1880, Germany)
87. Le Beau, Luise Adolpha (1850-1927, Germany)


♪♫ Clara Schumann - 3 Romances for Piano (Op.11), No. 1, Andante, in Ebm
♪♫ Lili Boulanger - Vieille Prière Bouddhique

[mabel1015j]

Wow! Barbara, is that a book or just a list?

I'm going to the library this afternoon to pick up Colonial Dames. Since it is new i have only 2 weeks to read it, but knowing Roberts books, i'm sure that normally wouldn't be a problem, except in that same 2 weeks i've got to finish the book for the f2f libray book group and an ebook i got online from the library. Of course, that last one i can return and get it another time.

"So many books, so little time."

[BarbStAubrey]

Unfortunately just a list with their accompanying photo on the page above. Woman composers who we can start to look online for their music or if you collect CDs rather than simply listening to the men whose names and their work are more familiar.

[mabel1015j]

I meant Capital Dames, not Colonial Dames.

[BarbStAubrey]

Here we go - Vítězslava Kaprálová, wrote this Concerto when she was only 20 years old in 1935

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k-tIEBV_rM

[MaryPage]

I am so horrified by that demonstration against Muslims in Phoenix that I am rendered frozen in terror and nausea.  What has HAPPENED to the VALUES of this country?  And since when is collectively carrying firearms and scaring the wits out of a community of men, women and CHILDREN meeting on their own property, and who are EQUAL in every way to all the rest of us in their rights as citizens of this country, allowed?  ALLOWED?
Apparently our rights as citizens to meet freely and express our reverence to a Higher Power is to be superseded by the second amendment as a handful of power brokers see it.  Yes, we can meet in our community centers, parish houses, churches, temples, synagogues, cathedrals, meeting houses, and so forth:  but from this point on there may be an armed mob surrounding and threatening our very existence!  Ready to pick us off as we exit?  Follow us to our homes and murder us? Dear God, but I am more than ready to step off this planet!

[mabel1015j]

I so agree. For me the world has turned upside down. I seldom watch the news any more, i am so disgusted with the behavior of people. But having always been a news junky,  ::)i can't give it up completely. As i have said before, the aliens - somebody or something - plastics? Hormones? - have tainted the water, making us totally irrational!

O.k., here we go again, only the first two sentences showed up in my post. I'll try again.

Jean

[BarbStAubrey]

When I look at the format by our government it is easier for me to see how folk, from the media to the average guy on the street are following suit with their version of the "Shock Doctrine"

From a paper I read on US world affairs developing peace and conflict. I never heard of the Washington Consensus but that is the basis of the thinking in Washington that I see has trickled down to the way we act to each other and the trauma this approach is based in affecting everyone.  

"The Washington Consensus first developed by John Williamson in the 1980s as a new strategy for development in Latin America became the platform which developing countries were prescribed to reach “Western” prosperity." The Washington Consensus is the market- based approach that bled into every sector of government, politics, and investments by Banks.

"The Washington Consensus contains 10 concrete principles:  (1) Fiscal Discipline; (2) Restructuring Public/Social Expenditure Priorities; (3) Tax Reform; (4) Liberalizing Interest Rates; (5) Competitive Exchange Rates; (6) Trade Liberalization; (7) Liberalization of Inward Foreign Direct Investment; ( Privatization; (9) Deregulation; and, (10) Property Rights. Lastly, Washington advocated applying these principles all at once, in other words by “Shock Therapy.”  

These principles, combined with enforcement by the IMF and World Bank in the form of Structural Adjustment (later called Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers), effectively made up an iron-locked structure for economic development and reform. To gain access to loans and aid from the critical international financial institutions, developing nations had little choice but to enroll in Structural Adjustment Policies, which secured their position on the new Bretton Woods track for development."

Every night on the news we see the 'Washington Consensus' in action keeping us in a state of shock - so that the average person, especially those without a reference to acceptable social behavior before the 1990s which is now 25 years ago. are living with, through or are observing 'Shock' that creates stress and shock is considered trauma.

Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter your sense of security, making you feel helpless and vulnerable in a dangerous world.

Most of the changes in our economy have pulled the rug out from under folks with lack of jobs and changes to traditional jobs that I can see because it happens in RE a rather stable way of work with only the demand changing from year to year and now every few months there is new rules, laws and most of all new technology to learn and use - in addition, there is nightly on TV photos of the out of control wars and human horrors with no end in sight and knowing folks from the Middle East were the people that caused a huge traumatic event on 9/11. Right or horribly wrong folks are in reaction.

There is no national support for living a normal calm predictable track in life - I feel like I need Lunas's blanket - We see how political figures are addicted to the Shock Doctrine just to be noticed.  As a nation we have not even admitted we are scared or upset. Using  Shock Doctrine there are those who have swooped in using our propensity for blame and our normal need to heal that is the stuff of   stability and security, they are using this void to push their own agenda - No different than the void after the floods in New Orleans wholesale created private, for profit, charter schools rather than rebuilding the public school system.

We, with our years of history watching all of this, we are feeling helpless and so all we can do is turn off the TV - Jean, you are not alone - I watch the local news and Charlie Rose about 3 or 4 nights a week and on Friday I do still turn to my old stand bys, the NewsHour and Washington Week in Review - no more Sunday round tables or whatever they consider themselves to be or morning or noon time news and seldom any national evening news - I have a web site or two I look at the headlines and if i want further information fine but most often I pass. But then most of us remember a different time and think this 'Shock Doctrine' approach will go away - I think we need to instead understand how it manifests itself and take care of ourselves because we cannot teach those born from the mid 70s on what it was like to live before everything became a drama of shock that big interests take advantage of and support to further their ends.

If we are ever going back to war which some do want - it is profitable - then we need to whip up anger towards those who look like who ever they have decided is the enemy and so attacks against Muslims gets a headline - those who own the media, yes, own - will profit from war and the brutality of ISIS is the fear tactic that is built up further to show them as marching into Israel - fight ISIS and the thinking is we protect Israel - so feature in their media, groups against Muslims - the more attention they get the more copycat events we will see.

Sounds like we are putting our heads in the sand by tuning out but what can we really do about any of this - all we can do is keep each other feeling calm, upbeat and valued - our efforts will spread - it always does and we can communicate where it makes a difference.

[Steph]

I think that fear is governing so much of our lives.The idea that people who are muslim,, young and male mostly.. go online and become radicalized is terrifying to everyone.. including their adult parents. Social media has a lot to answer for. I was just reading about trolls, which I did not understand the meaning of, but after Beau Bidens death accidently ran into the vilest commentary I have ever seen.. That is not a troll..That is a human being with no boundaries. How sad.

[MaryPage]

On the OTHER side of the coin, the Biden family showed the whole world what Family and Love are all about.  A Pure example.

And I thought our President's eulogy was perfect.  It will go down in History as a great funeral oration.

I choked up over Hunter's eulogy.  They say there was not a dry eye in the church or the overflow crowd outside where there were speakers set up.

The Biden family stood in line and shook hands for over 11 hours, that's how long the line was!

[Steph]

I originally was born and grew up in Delaware and know that the people were crazy about Beau and the whole Biden family. The state grieves for all of them.

[mabel1015j]

There's been a lot of discussion in feminist circles about Caitlyn's image of what one has to do to be "womenly." I commented on my blog today - which i have neglected for a long time - about what happened to our 70s struggle to be comfortable in our accoutraments.

o.k., again it posted only the first paragraph of my msg. I don't know if that's me or Seniorlearn, but i'll try again.

I added a bit of today's Nursing Clio blog that was motivated by the question of whether the make-up we wear is required or a pleasure. I have included a link to her blog in my blog.

http://womanstorybyjeanp.blogspot.com/2015/06/caitlyns-image-of-women.html

 

[maryz]

Well said, jean!  I left a comment on your blog.  I hope you keep writing.

[BarbStAubrey]

Yes, you bring up an interesting topic that gets you thinking - I also shared my thoughts

[MaryPage]

Well, as observed frequently for nearly a century now, it takes all kinds.

Actually, I grew up under tutelage from the strong women who dominated my childhood to believe that any makeup whatsoever, other than a dash of lipstick, or waft of powder on the nose to reduce any gleam there, was cheap.  Trashy people did that, WE did not!  We were "Ladies."

I never, ever bothered with the powder.  To this day, I have never used makeup other than an occasional dash of lipstick, and for the vast majority of the time, I skip that.  I look fine, thank you.  For some reason, I am physically uncomfortable with necklaces, bracelets and rings, albeit I own a goodly supply and apply them on the fanciest of occasions.  Pins I love, and I am naked without my earrings.  Truth!  If I go to the door in the early morning to retrieve my newspaper and a neighbor should go by and glimpse me without my earrings on, I feel they have seen me in the altogether;  that is to say, actually, that I am NOT YET all together!

Yes, I was raised to believe that only prostitutes and actresses wore makeup!  But I am now delighted that I have spent a lifetime without it, as everyone, EVERYONE, from my dermatologist to my teenage great granddaughters exclaims loudly about how remarkable my skin is.  My hairdresser goes nuts, and constantly tells me how amazing it is.  My face has never worn makeup, my eyes have never worn makeup, and my face has never been exposed to the sun.  I have avoided the sun like it was a killer and have never, ever sunbathed for so much as a minute.

It appalls me that my daughters and granddaughters, and now great granddaughters, have to spend ages on hair and makeup every day of their lives!  I have enjoyed ever so much more freedom than they!

As for it making you more feminine, I have had three (3) husbands (lost each to cancer) and the opportunity for more.  Always plenty of interested men.  And each of my husbands was purely delighted that I did not have a made up face smelling of "that crap," as one put it.  Go figure!

What makes a woman?  It is innate.  Hormonal.  I fully believe there are women in men's bodies.  I entertain absolutely no doubts about that fact of nature.  But there are women and women, and I own full faith and confidence in my womanhood with or without my earrings, though I'd druther it be WITH!

[Steph]

Jean, made a comment, but don't understand what I am supposed to be in the signature thing. None of the items are things I do

[MaryPage]

I had that same problem, Steph.  I finally decided to do "other," and then thought, naaaah.  I said all I had to say right here.

[mabel1015j]

I'm not clear about "the signature thing" and "categories." I thought you just replied in the box and "publish."

Jean

[MaryPage]

Apparently it is not that simple, Jean;  but remember, you own the blog and it already identifies you.  For me, it wants me to identify myself and gives the choice of the following "Profiles."
GoogleAccount
LiveJournal
WordPress
TypePad
AIM
OpenID

Like Steph, I am none of those;  in fact, I've never even heard of most of them.  So I finally decided to opt for OpenID, and then it wants me to fill in a box entitled:  URL:

Now I am pretty ignorant of all of this stuff, but I think it is asking me for a website?  In any event, I do not own a website.  Never have done.  So I felt a tad frustrated and decided not to explore any of the other options listed.

[Steph]

I tried several and kept getting to place that I have not ever written in.. Hmm. I don't follow blogs for the most part and now see whyl

[MaryPage]

Four of my 13 granddaughters keep blogs about their children, and I can get into each of those with a simple password each, but I never post on them;  I just read and enjoy.

One of my daughters keeps a blog about her class, and again, I can access that with a simple password, as can the parents.  She does not request comments, as she really does not have room for them.  We can email her, instead.

One of my great granddaughters kept a wonderful blog about her trip around the world.  Again, a simple password got me into it.

[Steph]

I used to keep up with some blogs from people who live in remote areas.. Interesting to me. I tend to be a natural hermit in many ways.

[MaryPage]

Me, too.

[Steph]

MaryPage, I am convinced that we were sisters in another universe.

[MaryPage]

Me, too.  We do not always agree, but we do the vast majority of the time, and when we do not it is in matters of no great significance.

Me, I envy you hugely having owned your very own bookstore;  something I always wanted, but it never even got near to happening.

[Steph]

It was a lovely lovely dream come true, but as my husband reminded me,, don't do it if you plan on earning a living.. and he was right.

[maryz]

Did you see on the news that the Treasury Department has announced that it is going to put a woman's picture on the $10 bill beginning in 2020 (the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment [women's suffrage])?  There will be various sites for suggestions as to which woman it will be.

[BarbStAubrey]

Yes, been reading about it - also the uglies are slamming Jackson as a racist etc etc etc. sheesh - no balance left - your either all good or all bad based on values today rather then realizing everyone grows and changes and within the understanding of their time folks did great things that make our life possible today -

[Steph]

I admired Jackson and still do. Go to his house and realize how bright and aware he was and how he adored his wife. But I do feel that it is time for a woman.. My choice is probably not popular, since I feel that Eleanor Roossevelt changed the way we looked at women..

[maryz]

This is not to replace Jackson.  It's to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10.00 bill.  Jackson is on the $20.

[MaryPage]

Am a big fan of Eleanor Roosevelt, as well.  Also Margaret Sanger should, IMHO, be on there.  Fat chance!

Heard someone on the telly say fer sure who it is going to be, and I've already forgotten.

Anyway, if you can tell me where to go to vote, I'll choose Margaret Sanger!  No one, NO ONE PERSON, has done more to improve the lives of women, to give them self awareness and confidence; and she did that for this whole vast nation of women.

[mabel1015j]

I so agree about Margaret Sanger, even though you all know i'm a huge fan of Alice Paul. Both of those women changed women's AND men's lives in the 20th century. I think we should celebrate Margaret Sanger's birthday, Sept 14, not as a national holiday where everyone gets off of work, but as a thank you to her and a celebration for our not having to have 8, 10, 12 children and for being able to have the ones we have when, and if, we want them.

Jean

[Steph]

Sorry, did not look at the 10.00 or 20.00... Margaret Sanger would be a good choice. I had read somewhere it as Sojourner Truth. I hope not for a variety of reasons, but who knows.

[MaryPage]

UNBELIEVABLE!

The NRA says if EVERYone in that church had had guns, they could have saved themselves, and THAT is the only answer!

Hey!  What if some of us don't WANT guns blasting off in every place we go in our daily routines?

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/06/18/nra-board-member-blames-murdered-reverend-for-d/204057