Feminism – elephantdentistry

Woman as anomaly: the many tales of Beruria

Oct 27, 2024

Feminism, Gender, Jewish history, Talmud, UCL, women, Women’s history

Made-up tales, possibly true stories, and why any of that matters. Finding out about women: “How it actually went down.” The BIAJS conference in July this year had gender as its theme, so I presented a paper on the supposed great scholar Beruria and the inevitably doomed (by my reckoning) attempts to fashion her as…

Not shutting up

Oct 28, 2020

Feminism, Poets

Feminism, Writing

Jenny Lindsay has written a piece that goes from quiet to angry, from moderate and reasonable to fierce, retrospective to poetically prophetic. It pins down a particular time in a specific community and place – a section of the literary, arts and live performance establishment in Scotland with some further out ripples – that fell…

Twisted tales of spinning and blogging

Sep 28, 2017

Experts, Feminism, Internet research, Living metaphors, Mosul

Blogging, Brooke Erin Duffy, Cardigan Castle, Gender, Knitblogs, Living metaphors, Mosul, National Wool Museum, Stephanie Taylor

Elephantdentistry’s main themes might seem a strange mix. They include (1) what’s going on with internet and social media industries, politics and practices, (2) experts, (3) living metaphors and catching them in the wild (fun with language), (4) feminism, (5) music and (6) Mosul. Here I’m getting most of these twisted together so let’s see…

Virago stories, and giving up on International Women’s Day

Mar 9, 2017

Feminism

Dena Attar, Feminism, International Women’s Day, Virago, Wasting Girls Time

Is it time to give up on International Women’s Day? Yesterday Melania Trump hosted an IWD lunch and Slate carried a story explaining that no, Trump wasn’t actually launching an escort service in China that same day but merely protecting his brand name. Even without that stuff, it’s struck me that IWD has become a…