Category Archives: Feminism
Women, Money, and Death
The medical field would like you to believe that it is all about healing and doing good for patients; however, even as far back as the European Witch Hunts in the 1500 and 1600s, it was at least partially about … Continue reading
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Note: This was an assignment for Death and the Maiden I came to Goddess worship as a recovering Baptist who was tired of being treated like a second class citizen in a church that valued the male over the female. … Continue reading
Women, Food, and Funerals
Note: This was an assignment for Death and the Maiden My first experience with death was when my elderly great aunt died and my family traveled from Illinois to Missouri for the funeral. My aunt’s home was filled with relatives, … Continue reading
Academic: The Spectrum of Women and Death
Link: The Spectrum of Women and Death Women are the dead. Women care for the dead. Women advocate for the dead. Throughout history, women’s roles related to death have ranged from passive victims posed for men’s entertainment, to caretakers of … Continue reading
Mothers as Activists and Advocates
Note: This was written for Death and the Maiden A mother’s connection to her child is visceral. If she birthed him, she felt the pains of her child’s tiny body struggling to escape hers and if her child came to … Continue reading
Antigone’s Grief
Note: This was an assignment for Death and the Maiden There were three components of funeral rites in Antigone’s day: the Prothesis or laying out of the body, the Ekphora or the procession of the body through the streets, and … Continue reading
Women, Death, and Eloquence
Note: This was an assignment for Death and the Maiden I struggled with this week’s readings as I disagreed so much with that Cixous and her musings about women writers. Women have most likely written about themselves and for themselves … Continue reading
Academic: Riddle of Femininity
Note: This was a course assignment for Death and the Maiden Thousands of years after Eve took that fateful bite of the apple and ninety years after Freud wrote that women are the problem and attributed their emotional makeup to … Continue reading
Dead White Girls
Note: This was a course assignment for Death and the Maiden I will confess upfront that I am a devotee of crime shows. I watch NCIS, FBI, and the Law and Orders. I’ve also been known to binge watch Cold Case and other shows during … Continue reading
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Academic: The More Things Change the More they Stay the Same
Note: This was a course assignment for Death and the Maiden The more things change, the more they stay the same was the refrain going through my mind as I read the assigned articles this week. The key themes of … Continue reading