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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Happy Women's History Month!

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ArabellaScott · 01/03/2024 11:17

I had no idea women got a whole month!!!

I can't wait to see the flags flying from every government building and all the celebrations of women in history everywhere. 😊

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ArabellaScott · 03/03/2026 09:08

Another piece on Betsy Miller. She lived with and supported her two sisters. None of them ever married.

https://naheritage.co.uk/stories/betsy-miller

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DeanElderberry · 03/03/2026 15:17

ArabellaScott · 27/02/2026 20:56

It's that time again!

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/dna-reveals-female-centered-society-in-catalhoyuk/

A Neolithic matrilinear society has been discovered in modern day Greece.

'Çatalhöyük, located near Konya, was occupied from about 7100 to 6000 BCE. This proto-city, famous for its rooftop-accessed mudbrick homes, elaborate murals, and female figurines, once had thousands of residents on its 32.5-acre expanse. Archaeologists have long debated whether the settlement was matriarchal, a notion first speculated by British archaeologist James Mellaart in the 1960s based on his interpretation of figurines that depicted female deities.

Now, thanks to the work of an international team of researchers led by Turkish geneticists Eren Yüncü and Mehmet Somel (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), archaeologist Eva Rosenstock (University of Bonn), and others, the ancient DNA of 131 skeletons has provided new insights into the social organization of the settlement. The data indicate that maternal lineage—rather than paternal—predominated in household organization.'

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I appreciate that the Catal Huyuk 'Goddess', like the much older 'Venus' figurines from other places looks like a post-menopausal woman. Lots of fat, pendulous breasts, belly apron. Not just a woman, an old woman, with the experience and wisdom that brings.

Happy Women's History Month!
ArabellaScott · 04/03/2026 12:17

Enheduanna - the first ever recorded author. Ancient poet, politician, and priestess.

Mesopotamia, in approximately 3400 BC was a wealthy society that was relatively hospitable for women, who could own property, worked in trades and the arts, and were governors like Queen Puabi, who lived 150 years prior to Enheduanna.

Enheduann, in her poetry recorded on clay tablets, was instrumental in creating a hybrid goddess - Ishtar/Inanna, who was a goddess of war, love, and abundance. The goddess battles a mountain range, eventually killing the mountain's male god. The illustrations of this text are the first known instance of an illustrated text.

Enheduanna's works that melded and emphasised the links between Ishtar and Inanna helped create a common system of beliefs through the empire, helping to bind Mesopotamia and Sumeria.

Posted in honour of women poets, and the women of Iraq.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20221025-enheduanna-the-worlds-first-named-author

Enheduanna: The world's first named author

A little-known Mesopotamian poet and priestess, Enheduanna, is the subject of a new exhibition in New York. Diane Cole explores the political power she wielded.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20221025-enheduanna-the-worlds-first-named-author

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ArabellaScott · 04/03/2026 13:46

An article on Holy Women's Rage:

https://www.faranakmirjalili.net/articles/2022/12/10/holy-womans-rage-the-woman-life-freedom-revolution-of-iran

“Lioness Inanna
crouched in a reed thicket
leaps to slash the fearless
mountain wildcat
prowling the roads
shows wet fangs
gnashes her teeth
wild bull Queen
mistress of brawn
boldly strong
no one dares turn away
greatest of the great rulers
a pit trap for the headstrong
a rope snare for the evil
where she spits venom
fighting erupts
tumult spreads the poison
her overturned fury
Holy Woman’s Rage
is a rampaging flood
hands cannot dam.”

—Enheduanna in The Exaltation of Inanna (4)

Revolution art by Toni de Muro

The ancient goddess Inanna was a goddess of love, fertility and war. It is noteworthy that this goddess who left her imprints in the collective psyche for over 4000 years was not known as a particularly nourishing Mother Goddess. She was a goddess of power, culture, arts, poetry, love-making and fertility. Inanna (and later Ishtar) was the first goddess figure to rise with the dawn of civilisation and was the main goddess to rule alongside other gods. She was considered the creatrix of life, but not as a classical nourishing and caring mother. Rather, she had the power to create and destroy at her will. Therefore, this goddess compensates the old-fashioned belief that women’s power (and thus role) lies only in their mother-role and that goddesses and the feminine divine are primarily mother-goddesses.'

Holy Woman's Rage: The “Woman-Life-Freedom” Uprising of Iran — Farânak Mirjalili

An essay on women’s rage as a vehicle of transformation and the #MahsaAmini, female-sparked revolution in Iran.

https://www.faranakmirjalili.net/articles/2022/12/10/holy-womans-rage-the-woman-life-freedom-revolution-of-iran

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SinnerBoy · 04/03/2026 14:08

Well, that's fascinating, I had no idea about the first illustrated text, for example.

MarieDeGournay · 04/03/2026 19:23

In years past I've made a carefully-researched contribution about some valiant and admirable woman in history.
This year - not so much, but it's good, isn't it?😁

Happy Women's History Month!
ArabellaScott · 07/03/2026 12:11

This Insta makes AI renders from historical art sources.

I find the recreations/interpretations of historical figures fascinating.

Here is one on Margaret Beaufort.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVjqZvfgbEk/

And here is a recent radio programme on MB, too. Came recommended!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3dq

Historium Recreations on Instagram: "Continuing my collaborations with @katherineparrsociety as we highlight Tudor matriarch Margaret Beaufort. Born in 1443, Margaret was a descendant of Edward III through the Beaufort line. In her youth she would be...

605 likes, 34 comments - _historiumart on March 6, 2026: "Continuing my collaborations with @katherineparrsociety as we highlight Tudor matriarch Margaret Beaufort. Born in 1443, Margaret was a descendant of Edward III through the Beaufort line. In he...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVjqZvfgbEk

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