#womensday — Public Fediverse posts

Happy International Women's Day! This is a little something I just quickly wrote about the day: "International Women’s Day 2025: Looking Back Over a Century Ago." Thanks a lot if you decide to check it out.
https://wordsmith.social/cappuccinogirl/international-womens-day-2025-looking-back-over-a-century-ago
#women #WomensDay #IWD #WomensHistoryMonth #gender #clarazetkin #writing #amwriting #WritingCommunity

Reification and objectification

"The notion of objectification concerns an interpersonal relationship, the individual action targeted by morality and law [...]. The notion of objectification, understood in this way, dispenses with a critical theory of society, which is central to the concept of reification. The emphasis is on individual responsibility, on the condemnation of singular acts, rather than on the social structures that demand, authorise or perpetuate these behaviours."

"In her book Dialectics of the Body, Lisa Yun Lee proposes an understanding of reification in Adorno based on the question of the body: the body forgotten by scientific modernity, the repressed body associated with nature and the feminine, the body mutilated by identity violence, and the commodity and spectacle body, instrumentalised for production (Yun Lee, 2004). "All reification is an oblivion": an oblivion of suffering, a collective anaesthesia to the effects of domination systematically organised and reproduced by reification."

Naït Ahmed, Salima ; Loslier-Simon, Marie : « Réification». Dictionnaire du genre en traduction / Dictionary of Gender in Translation / Diccionario del género en traducción. ISSN: 2967-3623. Mis en ligne le 09 Novembre 2023: https://worldgender.cnrs.fr/notices/reification/ @patriarchy

#Reification #objectification #research #feminism #feminisms #systemicRacism #blackFeminism #dictionary #InternationalDayOfWomenSRights #WomenSRights #March8 #InternationalWomenSRightsDay #InternationalWomenSDay #WomenSDay #CNRS

„Charlotte vom Itzelberg“
#Weltfrauentag darum Bilder der #Mäusemädels
https://www.maushausen.net
#8März #Frauentag #Frauenkampftag #internationalwommensday #Womensday #Mäuseroulette #GermanMedieRT #Mäusespiel #Maushausen #Gauklermaus #Mäusegaukler #gntm #dragonball #eurovision #iwd2024 #Gerbil #Gerbiliane #Wüstenrennmaus #Wüstenrennmäuse #Rennmaus #Rennmäuse #Springmaus #Wüstenspringmaus #Springmäuse #Wüstenspringmäuse #Maus #Mäuse #Tierschutz #Tierschutzgesetz #Wirbeltierschein

"Introduced in the 1990s in the United States by black women activists, the concept of reproductive justice highlights how access to reproductive rights is impeded by gender, race and class oppressions. The entry presents the origins of the reproductive justice movement in the United States and the circulation of this notion in activist and academic spheres internationally."

El Kotni, Mounia; Louise Virole : “Justice reproductive”. Dictionnaire du genre en traduction / Dictionary of Gender in Translation / Diccionario del género en traducción. ISSN: 2967-3623. Mis en ligne le 6 juillet 2022: https://worldgender.cnrs.fr/notices/justice-reproductive/ @patriarchy

#reproductiveJustice #intersectionality #research #feminism #feminisms #systemicRacism #blackFeminism #Procriation #proCreation #maternity #dictionary #InternationalDayOfWomenSRights #WomenSRights #March8 #InternationalWomenSRightsDay #InternationalWomenSDay #WomenSDay #CNRS

February was #figuary, when #croquiscafe posted a new video every day! On day 6, Helen posed with a Japanese scarf, and the thing that fascinated me about her is this kind, serene glow, mixed with girlish mischievousness.

https://www.irisluckhaus.de/figuary-06-helen/

Thank you so much, @helensaundersmodelling and @croquiscafe_bts <3

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@Curator #lifeclass #figuredrawing #gesture #procreate #sketching #drawing #betweenjloandbettywhite #digitalart #figuary2024 #dailydrawing #beautyideals #womensday #frauentag

#WordyWednesday: Shrouding Women

When you think of morticians, you might conjure images of creepy old men in black suits. But did you know that they've only been "in charge" of the dead for the last century or so? Before that, men were typically responsible for building coffins and digging graves. Body preparation fell to the women!

Women were already tasked with nursing the sick, distributing herbs, and aiding in childbirth, so bathing and dressing the dead was a natural progression. Since it was a duty that demanded care, gentleness, and propriety, men were simply unsuited to the task. Enter the shrouding women.

Many neighborhood women became skilled and knowledgeable in the art of preparing the dead. They understood the weather's effect on decomposition and how to tend to bodies suffering from various conditions. They lent their expertise to those in need, not for monetary compensation but as an act of community.

Duties included preparing a cooling board (sometimes an ironing board or barn door placed over chairs), washing and dressing the corpse, closing the eyes and mouth (coins on eyes and jaws secured shut with tied rags or forked sticks propped against the breast bone), and otherwise arranging the body into a restful pose.

Commercialization of death care after the Civil War led cabinetmakers to evolve from coffin builders to embalmers. They wrested control of bodies away from women, claiming women were weak, delicate, and unable to tolerate the sight of blood. As the men rose into the ranks of professionals, women were relegated to the sidelines of death care. They became decorations. Trade journal advertisements portrayed men doing funeral work and women as objects of beauty. The foundation was laid for men to dominate the industry for the next 100 years.

Fortunately, we've come full circle and women are entering funeral service in droves. Over 70% of graduating mortuary science classes are women. Turns out we *can* handle some blood after all.

#HisAndHearsePress #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenSupportingWomen #DeathCare #FuneralService #MortuaryScience #MortuarySchool #DeathPositive #FuneralDirector #Embalmer #Mortician #Undertaker