https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v By Mina Loy, 1914 en-us 2016-02-06 11:00:48 UTC 2024-07-15 12:11:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/96597820/131bc32dde0e66f646e7f0025ce4f74cd52d5f65/263560884ad012299c2ff4cc19e4a6d4.jpg loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612018 Mina Loy's “Feminist Manifesto” is a polemic against women’s subordinate position in modern Western culture, penned in 1914 by Anglo-American writer and painter Mina Loy, who was then living in an expatriate community in Florence, Italy. This polemic, unpublished in Loy’s lifetime, is one of her earliest prose works and offers a rather violent program for securing women’s individuality and thereby transforming their social and artistic status.]]> 2016-02-06 11:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612018 loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612059 2016-02-06 11:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612059 loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612176 2016-02-06 11:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612176 loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612234 2016-02-06 11:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612234 loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612370 (27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966)]]> 2016-02-06 11:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612370 loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612537 2016-02-06 11:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612537 loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612555

...Mina Loy?

...the Feminist Manifesto?

...the Feminist Movement?

]]> 2016-02-06 11:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612555 loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612804 Mina Loy was a British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, futurist, actress, Christian scientist, feminist, model, nurse, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Loy was married twice. On 31 December 1903, she married Stephen Haweis. Their marriage ended in 1913. She married Arthur Cravan in Mexico City in 1918. Not long after their marriage, Cravan disappeared. His body was found later in the desert. In 1914, while living in an expatriate community in Florence, Italy, Loy wrote the Feminist Manifesto, for which she is perhaps best known today.]]> 2016-02-06 11:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93612804 loredv02 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93613400 Watch this video and write your own ideas about the following questions:

1. What does "feminity" mean for you?
2. Do you think that women and men are treated in the same way in the media?
3. Do you find any relation between what Loy says in her manifesto and what you can see in this video?

]]> 2016-02-06 12:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93613400 mhe_1993 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93616234 Suffragette is a British film that has just been released in cinemas around the world. It tells the story of the feminist movement that took place in England in the early 20th century. You have the trailer here.
Watch the film and answer some questions:

1. What made Maud Watt, the main character, decide to join the Suffragette movement?
2. What do you think of Maud's and Violet's husbands' reaction to their being suffragettes?
3. Do you think this group of women are have the correct attitude when fighting for women's vote? Do you think they should do anything differently?

]]> 2016-02-06 13:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93616234 zaidagr https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93619116 Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. 

The following quote belongs to one of her most famous pieces of writing The Second Sex. Read it, think about it and discuss with a partner what you think it may mean.


]]> 2016-02-06 15:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93619116 crisdesolana https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93888416
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1929. She dared to express openly  what very few women writers dared. She criticized the past and duly advocated for progression regarding women’s issues, since many of the ideas arising in the patriarchal society in the 19th century continued to proceed into the 20th century.

Once we already know more about the writer, please analyze thoroughly this extract (the second and third paragraphs of Chapter 1 from the book cited above) and answer the following questions:

1. What is the text about?
2. Which is the underlying ideology? What is Virginia Woolf's point of view?
3. Do you find any connection with the Feminist Manifesto?
4. Could you quote a sentence from this extract in which her ideology is expressed through a metaphor?

]]> 2016-02-08 19:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/93888416 mellicika_2 https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/100672821 Let's read a little bit about feminism. Are you ready to check how much do you know about it?]]> 2016-03-13 23:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/loredv02/7x2ovll8s41v/wish/100672821