I thought these two articles were interesting. I always love reading about women standing together to fight injustice. It also is sad to read about these injustices committed by the government—any government. It infuriates me and breaks my heart at the same time. But what was inspiring was women coming together to fight a common enemy even when their core views did not align. Like when conservative women and liberal women came together. This is why it is hard to define feminism. Every woman is a feminism if she believes in the equality of the sexes. I think this is all that matters. Well of course it is not all that matters but it is the core of feminism. After that you can be as conservative or risqué as you want. It is the choice and the freedom to just be. Then you could get into other things like people who believe in equality of the sexes but not gay rights. We have a problem there. Feminism is about everybody.
Something I found interesting, and a little bit humorous, in the Isabella Cosse article was the double standard in Argentina’s 1922 criminal code that was enforced throughout the 1960s that stated “a husband was only considered adulterous if he kept a mistress or was found with another woman in the bed he shared with his wife, but for a wife it was enough to have had a casual encounter with another man” (416). I mean wow. I just had to laugh because it is too ridiculous. It makes me think of all the double standards today. I like this artist’s take:
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Hi Rachel,
Thanks for your post. I thought your point about what it means to be a feminist was interesting. That’s definitely a question that this class has made me think about a lot. When it comes to your definition of feminism, I think I have to respectfully disagree with you. I think that we should be a little bit more critical in how we define feminism. You wrote that as a baseline, a person has to believe in equality of the sexes in order to be a feminist, and although there are other important factors, after meeting that baseline you can be as conservative as you want. I would argue that a conservative person who believes that abortion should be illegal cannot be a feminist, even if they believe that women and men should be equal in other regards.
This is such an interesting topic, and I appreciate you bringing it up.
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I really like your comment about women coming together to fight a common cause. I think this is a very good point because the best way for people to get heard is to come together and in these texts we see women from different backgrounds joining together to get answers from the government. For the case of the Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, the mothers put aside their political views and only focus on the idea of getting answers from the government about their missing children. As mothers, they have the right to know where their sons are and this is nothing political. To us, these women can be seen as feminists, women who are fighting for the human rights of other individuals and themselves, but they did not call themselves feminist directly themselves.
I also appreciate you sharing the cartoon, it’s great!
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