08-25 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Shulasmith Firestone.
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08-25 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 08-25-1800, Elizabeth Montague, an upper-class Englishwoman
who organized conversation evenings in an attempt to find something worthwhile
to do rather than be an ornament. (The lower class women worked night and
day.) EM was of the first to be called a bluestocking.
B. 08-25-1873, Blanche Lyon Bates, star of the stage for more
than 30 years who became known by her most notable role, *Girl of the Golden
West.*
B. 08-25-1909, Ruby Keeler, dancer.
Event 08-25-1920, the governor of Tennessee signs his state's
legislative resolution ratifying the 19th amendment and mails it to Washington,
thus delayingwomen s votes for another day.
B. 08-25-1927, Althea Gibson, first Afro-American woman to win major
tennis tournaments. AG was inducted into the tennis hall of fame in
1971.
B. 08-25-1962, Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi feminist author and physician
who remains hidden in Sweden after being condemned by fundamentalist Islamic
for blasphemous writing. A bounty has been declared.
She writes blisteringly about the oppression of women
under Muslim religious rule. Religious fundamentalists have burned stores
that carried her books. She has stated the Qur`an has only historical value
and should be revised.
When compared with the author Salman Rushdie who is
no longer in hiding from Islamic forces, Nasrin pointed out a clear difference:
"He has apologized. I have not and will not."
Event 08-25-1994, Ann Manson, 32, became the first women to conduct
the all-male Salzburg Symphony at the renowned Salzburg Festival and the
first woman to conduct a symphony orchestra in Austria's history. A woman
on the podium has NOT been repeated.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
FIRESTONE, SHULASMITH:
"Thus the defeat was
so frequent, and victory so rare - and then achieved by such bare margins
- that even to read about the struggle for (woman's) suffrage is exhausting,
let alone to have lived through it and fought for it. The lapse of historians
in this area is understandable, if not pardonable."
-- Shulalmith Firestone
in The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
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