This Is What a Feminist Looks Like:

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This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: A Feminist Reader Reminds Us that Feminism Is Rooted in 2,500 Years of Philosophy and Activism

Co-authored by Dr. Margaret Lowry

The declaration "This is what a feminist looks like" has had a recent resurgence thanks to Kelly Martin Broderick, a woman who was photographed with a sign saying just that. When Broderick's photo was taken from a social media site and turned into a meme with shaming comments about her politics and appearance, she urged feminists to post their own photos "to show that there is not one type of feminist. Feminists are not a monolith. We are diverse and unique." The result is a Tumblr account called We Are What Feminists Look Like with hundreds of photos of people of varied ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and religions from all over the world. The photos provide a powerful visual reminder of contemporary feminism's extensive reach -- and of feminists' refusal to be shamed, dismissed, or silenced.

The new anthology A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi, edited by Drs. Sharon H. Harris and Linda K. Hughes, illustrates the worldwide feminist tradition that has paved the way for 21st-century cyber-activism like Broderick's. A Feminist Reader shows us what feminism has "looked like" across six continents and 2,500 years. As Harris and Hughes note, the exciting four-volume collection is "the most comprehensive transhistorical, transnational compendium of feminist thought to date."

The editors wanted to "revise mistaken notions that women in the past were passive or silent." They did so by assembling a collection of over 120 complete entries that begins around 600 BC with Sappho, the Greek lyric poet born on the island of Lesbos, and ends with Marjane Satrapi's 2003 graphic novel Persepolis. As Harris and Hughes note, readers "not only encounter and explore feminist thought from the continents of North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, from the 6th century BC to 2003, but they also have the opportunity to follow the throughline of a given feminist argument, seeing how its philosophical, rhetorical, theoretical, and/or polemical elements work together."

Currently, A Feminist Reader is available as a library reference set. Readers interested in the anthology can contact their local public and university libraries to ask if it's available, and if not, request that it be ordered.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-pauline-lowry/this-is-what-a-feminist-l_1_b_4370119.html

[niyad]

1. will definitely be checking with my library tomorrow. thank you for sharing this.