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Our History is our Strength

Our History is our Strength. Women’s History Month, March 2011. Our History is Our Strength. Why I like this theme… Issue of women & power… What does one do with this? Women warriors were weird & even odder.. Warrior queens Every age struggles with this…. Outside the Classical World.

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Our History is our Strength

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  1. Our History is our Strength Women’s History Month, March 2011

  2. Our History is Our Strength • Why I like this theme… • Issue of women & power… • What does one do with this? • Women warriors were weird & even odder.. • Warrior queens • Every age struggles with this…

  3. Outside the Classical World Cartimandua of Brigantes

  4. Zenobia of Palmyra

  5. The Legends & Reality Cleopatra VII TheaPhilopator Semiramis

  6. Warrior Queens • The answer of the Ancient World • The Amazons • Lysistrata • “No people who place a woman over their affairs prosper” -- Mohammed on a Persian princess • How do you explain/ cope with this?

  7. Warrior Queens • Voracity Syndrome • Chastity Syndrome • Holy Armed Figurehead • Appendage Syndrome • “Well did she show, great Harry was her sire, Whom Europe did for valour most admire.”

  8. Warrior Queens • Shame Syndrome • “Only a Weak Woman” Syndrome • Tomboy Syndrome • What if she is unsuccessful? • Empress Matilda (Maud) • Violated her the confines of her sex • Question of Boudicca/ Boadicea

  9. Feminist Theory & Female Rulers? • Christine de Pizan • More inclined “to make peace and avert wars.” • Joan Kelly • “And I know in the depth of my being and in all my knowledge of history and humanity, I know women will struggle for a social order of peace, equality and joy.” • Honorary Male Theory • Lynne Segal • “I accept that women are gentler at the moment, but if they had the same amount of power as men, they wouldn’t be more virtuous.” • We’re still sure what to do with them.

  10. Still Fairly rare 11 with no women in government at all 11 Prime Ministers 10 Presidents 3 Queens Regnant 3 Governors General

  11. In American Politics Victoria Woodhull, 1872 Gracie Allen, 1940

  12. Playing with Big Boys • Supreme Court • Women of the Cabinet • 1933, Frances Perkins

  13. Female U.S. Governors Currently: Arizona, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina & Washington Red (Rep.), blue (Dem.) and purple (both) represent states that have had female governors; white represents those that have had none

  14. Women in Congress • 535 Members of Congress • 39 Female Senators • Currently 17 • 235 Women in the House • 74 Currently • Succession issue? • 46 directly followed husbands • 12 followed fathers

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