Women have historically critiqued and challenged their subordinate role. In 248 ce, a Vietnamese peasant woman, Trieu Thi Trinh, told her brother that: “My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I want to drive the enemy away to save our people. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines”. Women also challenged the male claim to religious authority and power. A’ishah, Muhammad’s third wife, for example, battled a Khalife in 656, and afterwards created her own religious laws. In eighth-century India, women involved in the bhakti (a popular revolt against a form of Hinduism) broke with their families, created their own spiritual writings, and demanded that men treat them as spiritual equals. European women preachers and heretics claimed direct connection with God thus creating religious and feminist impulses. Guillemine of Bohemia, a late-thirteenth-century preacher and mystic, challenged Catholic dogma, and created a women’s church that attracted aristocratic as well as ordinary women.
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Barbara Winslow, Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality
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The next time someone tells me that you can’t have feminism in historical settings I’m going to print out 1,000 copies of this post, bind the paper, and throw it at them.
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“My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I want to drive the enemy away to save our people.” HOLY SHIT.
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There have always been feminists, for as long as there have been men telling us we’re chattel, there have always been women who said, “No.”
Don’t kid yourself, most of the history we’re taught is more like a really bad fanfic where all the male characters are iterations of a Marty Stu. You’ve got to dig deeper than that.
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And lo, the dudebros did protest, saying, ‘BUT OPPRESSION IS HISTORICAL ACCURACY BECAUSE HOLLYWOOD AND ALSO GIRL GERMS’ while rending mightily of their fedoras; but cruel Logic and the Historical Record remained unmoved, and shat on them with the strength of ages.
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