In our first substantive post (by @allauren.bsky.social ) , Mary Astell considers the question of whether Gen Z women ought to marry Gen Z men, given recent data that 31% Gen Z men think that wives ought to always obey their husbands.
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These posts will cover a wide range of figures, times, and topics and will be written by many folks in the broader ENN community (we already have two folks committed to special Halloween-themed posts!). They are also meant to be public-facing and accessible to non-philosophers.
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ENN has launched a Substack! 👀
Cavendishing it Out is organized around providing historical hot takes and hidden histories - bringing historically overlooked philosophers into the present by connecting them with contemporary and timeless questions.
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One week left to submit your panel proposals:
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Y'all have a little over 2 weeks to submit your panel proposals to the coolest thing to happen in Canada since Heated Rivalry! 🤓
(General CFP coming soon).
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Day 30 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and journalist Margaret Fuller!
Fuller rethought female intellectual solidarity, initiating "Conversations" that gathered women to discuss philosophy and social issues. With #Emerson, she founded American #transcendentalism.
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Day 29 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Puerto Rican suffragist and scientist Ana Roqué de Duprey!
Roqué rethought civil rights for Puerto Rican women, fighting for equality beyond the vote. She wrote a study of Caribbean botany and an astronomical text called “The Sky of Puerto Rico.”
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Day 28 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American Jewish poet, essayist & translator Emma Lazarus!
Lazarus rethought the relationship between immigration, loyalty, and community, writing “Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” Her words are immortalized on the Statue of Liberty.
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Day27 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: British author & reformer Frances Power Cobbe!
Cobbe rethought social patterns that produced domestic violence, publishing essays condemning official indifference, exposing hypocrisy, & demanding reform. She also pioneered arguments for animal rights.
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Day 26 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: British mathematician Ada Lovelace!
Lovelace rethought the potential of symbolic thinking, creating programming techniques that led to what we now call software. She is now the namesake of a programming language and a cryptocurrency!
#herstory #womeninSTEM
Day 25 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American pacifist Dorothy Detzer!
Detzer rethought the relationship between #pacifism and anticolonialism, arguing that white pacifists must fight against the exploitation of African colonies if they truly wanted to prevent war.
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Day24 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American author & reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman!
Gilman rethought the relation bn women’s labor & economics, arguing that housework & childcare should be paid so women could think. Her worldview unfortunately included a racist eugenics that mars her legacy.
Day 23 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Polish economist and socialist Rosa Luxemburg!
Luxemburg rethought the relationship between colonialism and capitalism, illustrating how imperialist aims demanded capitalist principles. She was murdered for her role in the German Revolution of 1919.
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Day 22 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: novelist and civil rights leader Jessie Fauset!
Fauset rethought the tensions facing Black women, exploring, in Morgan Jerkins’ words, how to balance “desire and ambition” during the Harlem Renaissance.
#herstory #womenshistorymonth #Blackhistory #ushistory
Day 21 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld is American abolitionist Lydia Maria Child!
Child rethought regional responsibility for slavery, telling her fellow Northerners that their money, racism, & political cowardice made them complicit. “Let us not flatter ourselves,” she wrote. Boston was unamused.
Day20 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American minister & philosopher Antoinette Brown Blackwell!
Blackwell rethought Darwin’s theory of evolution by insisting that female traits receive equal consideration & by denying that women's differences from men implied inferiority.
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Day 19 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher Ella Lyman Cabot!
Lyman Cabot rethought #ethics, focusing not on universal principles but on moral vision. Her “everyday ethics” called on readers to widen their vision to see others' needs more clearly.
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Day 18 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: inseparable German feminists/pacifists Lida Gustava Heymann & Anita Augspurg!
Heymann & Augspurg rethought women’s political potential by editing a political journal & lobbying for Hitler’s expulsion from Bavaria in 1923. They died in exile in 1943.
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Day 17 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Black and Native American sculptor Edmonia Lewis!
Lewis rethought "American" art, sculpting famous Americans & stunning the 1876 Centennial Exhibition with a 3000-pound sculpture of Egyptian queen Cleopatra’s death.
#herstory #Blackhistory #womenshistory
Day 16 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: #philosopher Ednah Dow Cheney!
Cheney rethought the difference between poetry and science. She claimed they were different ways of presenting truth, together revealing the otherness of nature and the human agency that enriches it.
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A month left to submit your panel proposals, folks!
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Day 15 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American economist Florence Kelley!
Kelley rethought philanthropy’s relationship to capitalism, writing that it is a “vain struggle to patch & alleviate
an evil social system, propping up what ought to be torn down & rebuilt.”
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Day 14 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: educator & activist Margaret Murray Washington!
Washington rethought transnational solidarity by founding study groups for Black American women to learn about women of color around the world.
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Day13 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: geologist and #pacifist Zonia Baber!
Baber rethought how geology is taught, emphasizing field experience over memorization. In Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, she worked to rid textbooks of racial stereotypes.
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Day 12 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US #peace activist and organizer Addie Hunton!
Hunton rethought Black #internationalism and promoted racial justice as a condition of peace. To quote Melinda Plastas, she “helped usher in a reconfigured Black political consciousness."
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Day11 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US economist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch!
Balch rethought economic justice for immigrants and working women. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for rethinking international law and leading the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
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This recent article by Katie Brennan uses my translations of Clara Zetkin's work on socialism. Really happy that my work can make Zetkin's ideas more accessible: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Love this! Huge thanks to Anna and Katie for making a brilliant thinker more accessible
For more on Zetkin, this wonderful podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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Day 10 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: German philosopher, feminist, and pacifist Helene Stöcker!
Stöcker used #Nietzsche to rethink the value of the values holding women back. She also rethought the value of war; her radical #pacifism forced her to flee the Nazis in 1933.
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