| 12-08 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Sexual Violence in the Home
Mary, Queen of Scots
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Lily Tomlin and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Excerpt from Women, a World Report
"But
it is not only wives who are raped. Daughters, too, also fall victim to
the sexual violence of the man in the house.
"Research in countries as far apart as Australia,
the U.S., Egypt, Israel and India indicate that as many as one in four
families is incestuous. And, in the vast majority of cases - between 80
and 90 percent - it is girls being sexually used by their male relatives,
usually their fathers.
"In Cairo, for instance, a 1973 study found between
33 and 45 percent of families contained daughters who had been raped, molested,
or 'interfered with' by a relative or close family friends.
"Kinsey's
study in the U.S. found incest in 24 per cent of families and figures are
similar in Australia and the U.K. Two-thirds of Israeli victims were less
than ten years old, one in 16 victims in an Indian survey were aged between
six months and six years, and a quarter of U.S. victims were aged under
five.
"Extending these figures to the rest of the world
implies that as many as 100 million young girls may be being raped by adult
men - usually their fathers - often day after day, week after week, year
in, year out."
-- Women, a World Report. A New Internationalist Book. Part I
by Debbie Taylor. P. 65/ London: Oxford Press,1985.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Born Dec. 8, 1542, Mary Stewart,
Queen of Scots. Had she not faced the powerful will of Elizabeth I, she
may have succeeded in becoming the Queen of England as well as Scotland,
but that fell to her son James along with her head.
MS inherited the throne of Scotland at the age of
six days and reigned as queen into 1567. She married the King of France
(1559-60) who died. She made some attempts to be named Queen of France
after her husband's death but returned to Scotland. She married again and
was part of a number of plots and conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth
of England in which she sought to depose Elizabeth and claim the crown
herself. Finally, after a great deal of procrastination on Elizabeth's
part, MS was beheaded for treasonous actions against Elizabeth I - who
then made Mary's son James heir to the throne of England.
WOA would humbly suggest reading at least THREE of
the most recent books you can find on Mary and Elizabeth before trying
to unravel their complex relationship overlaid with political scheming
by everyone around the two women.
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12-08 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-08-1542, Mary Queen of Scots.
B. 12-08-1626, Christina or Kristina, Queen
of Sweden 1644-1654, gave up crown to become Roman Catholic and moved
to Rome where she was patron of the arts and the toast of the city. Known
historically as "enigmatic." Some given her birthdate as 12/6.
Her close companion, lady-in-waiting was Ebba Sparre. She was noted for
her wit and great learning and she refused to marry.
B. 12-08-1809, Mary Aloysia Hardey, assistant
general of the Society of the Sacred Heart,
established convents and schools in the U.S. and Canada.
B. 12-08-1861, Mary Kimball Morgan, established
The Principia, a St. Louis, Missouri, school which taught Christian
Science children. Started as preschool in 1898, grades were added as needed
until it included a two-year college course that pioneered the Junior college
movement. It expanded to include a four-year college program in 1932 and
moved to Elsah, Illinois soon afterwards.
B. 12-08-1878, Marie Mattingly Meloney, editor
and journalist. Trained by her mother who was also a editor-journalist-educator.
She is the woman who was instrumental in raising $100,000 from the women
of America for an ounce of radium so Marie Curie could continue her work.
Curie was too poor to buy the radium and the French government wasn't interested
in helping the Nobel prize winner. Editor of the world renowned Sunday
magazine of the New York Herald Tribune, then the first editor of This
Week the national Sunday magazine insert.
B. 12-08-1903, Zelma Watson George, sociologist
and singer. Her mother was a college teacher
and her sisters became a chemist, a housing executive, a supervisor of
schools, and an actuary. Taught in Chicago, founded the Avalon Community
Center in Los Angeles. Her doctorate dissertation was a definitive annotated
bibliography of black folk art and music. Member of the U.S. delegation
to the United Nations General Assembly, served in an advisory capacity
regarding women in the armed service.
B. 12-08-1907, Irene, designer
who approved all women's gowns for the Metro-Goldwin-Mayer film productions
during its glory years in the 1940's.
B. 12-08-1916, Dorothy Vredenburgh (Bush),
often the only woman's voice heard during
the conduct of business at the Democratic National Conventions as she called
the roll of states as secretary of the national Democratic party through
ten U.S. Presidents and 17 chairs of the party, 1944-1989.
B. 12-08-1922, Jean Ritchie, vocalist,
one of the great scholars and performers of traditional folk ballads.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
TOMLIN, LILY:
"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?"
-- Lily Tomlin
WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY:
"Taught
from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to
the body, and roaming around its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
-- Mary Wollstonecraft
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