It sounds like Merve Emre's piece on Susan Taubes is thought-provoking and inspiring. It must be powerful for someone to be able to laugh in the face of patriarchy despite their attempts to stifle one's voice, but I agree with Taubes that it's difficult for many women to truly free themselves from societal constructs that exist primarily because of men. However, with writers like Taubes pushing against these constraints through their work, we can all hope that the world moves toward a more gender-equal future for all people.
This new piece by Merve Emre is excellent—although unnerving— I’m completely inspired to read Susan Taubes.
“Here was a woman who, when faced with the scorn and the judgment of the patriarchs, laughed the laugh of the Medusa, and turned these stony-faced men into even stonier stones. But this is too simple a revision. For Taubes, no woman could ever truly free herself from existing in some relation to men—of being, and of having been, begotten by them, flesh of their flesh, blood of their blood, their ideas and their history the starting point of her struggle.”
The Afterlives of Susan Taubes https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/lament-for-julia-susan-taubes-book-review
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