our history is our strength
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Our History is our Strength. Women’s History Month, March 2011. Our History is Our Strength. Why I like this theme… Issue of women & power… What does one do with this? Women warriors were weird & even odder.. Warrior queens Every age struggles with this…. Outside the Classical World. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Our History is our Strength
Women’s History Month, March 2011
Our History is Our Strength
Why I like this theme… Issue of women &
power… What does one do with
this? Women warriors were
weird & even odder.. Warrior queens Every age struggles
with this…
Outside the Classical World
Cartimandua of Brigantes
Zenobia of Palmyra
The Legends & Reality
SemiramisCleopatra VII Thea
Philopator
Warrior Queens
The answer of the Ancient World The Amazons Lysistrata “No people who place a woman over
their affairs prosper” -- Mohammed on a Persian princess
How do you explain/ cope with this?
Warrior Queens
Voracity Syndrome Chastity Syndrome Holy Armed Figurehead Appendage Syndrome
“Well did she show, great Harry was her sire, Whom Europe did for valour most admire.”
Warrior Queens
Shame Syndrome “Only a Weak Woman” Syndrome Tomboy Syndrome What if she is unsuccessful?
Empress Matilda (Maud) Violated her the confines of her sex Question of Boudicca/ Boadicea
Feminist Theory & Female Rulers?
Christine de Pizan More inclined “to make peace and avert wars.”
Joan Kelly “And I know in the depth of my being and in all
my knowledge of history and humanity, I know women will struggle for a social order of peace, equality and joy.”
Honorary Male Theory Lynne Segal
“I accept that women are gentler at the moment, but if they had the same amount of power as men, they wouldn’t be more virtuous.”
We’re still sure what to do with them.
Still Fairly rare
11 Prime Ministers 10 Presidents 3 Queens Regnant 3 Governors General
11 with no women in government at all
In American Politics Victoria Woodhull, 1872
Gracie Allen, 1940
Playing with Big Boys
Supreme Court Women of the Cabinet
1933, Frances Perkins
Female U.S. Governors
Red (Rep.), blue (Dem.) and purple (both) represent states that have had female governors; white represents those that have had none
Currently: Arizona, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina & Washington
Women in Congress
535 Members of Congress
39 Female Senators Currently 17
235 Women in the House 74 Currently
Succession issue? 46 directly followed
husbands 12 followed fathers