![]() I know European and American Jewish men and women can be great intellectuals and academics such as Hanna Arendt or Cixous, Freud or Benjamin, and they have conformed the Western thought. ![]() Is not Israel defending our rights? Our Western women rights? Being political ignorant, I am based on my daily life experiences I know I can interact normally with men and women from Israel: our social “non-spoken rules” are shared. My wonder is to read and listen contemporary feminist writers claiming against Israel and supporting countries where terrorists govern or did govern. But she was not the only one, we, Europeans and North-Americans have a great collection of female writers: Wollstonecraft, Shelley, the Brontë, Woolf, Richardson, Arendt, Wharton, Lee, Colette, de Beauvoir, Browning, Dinesen, Pardo Bazán, and much much more. Jane Austen wrote in her house’s living room because it was not usual for a woman to have a room of her own’s at the late 18th C. My political opinions are quite simple, and my political knowledge no more than a kind of “coffee-comments”, moreover I do not like to mix up issues, but after arguing and arguing on FB about the conflict, and see a mass European reaction against Israel, I have decided to write from the most PhD-linked perspective I could find: from a Western woman perspective.įeminism and radical-feminism stand for women’s sexual liberation and women rights Western women fought for years and years to win the right to vote, to study, to have a degree, and a professional career Western women fought as well to write and to be heard, to have a voice in politics, and a place in social organizations. I have tried and tried to keep my thoughts on the Gaza conflict away from this blog which I intend to be dealing only with literature and my daily work.
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