Tag: Feminist thinking

• Is thought gendered?

  There was a time when I thought I actually understood the world, but I wonder if I was just casting my eyes about me from a plinth. I was a gynaecologist in another life, and although I tried to understand the other side, perhaps I was merely looking through a glass darkly. It takes more…

  gozzter

  May 31, 2023

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  philosophy, pregnancy, ethics, biases, context, emotion, Feminist thinking, thought, care ethics, dispassionate reasoning, Eileen O'Neill, Malala Yousafzai

• Life after the bedtime story

  I’m not sure when I was first introduced to myths -Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces in university to be sure- but I think it was when I was much younger that I became fascinated with the idea of stories which, although often fanciful, tried to explain the meaning and significance of the…

  gozzter

  July 20, 2022

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  fairy tales, Feminist thinking, Greek and Roman myths, Homer, imagination, Jess Zimmerman, Joseph Campbell, Lamia, Medusa, metaphors, myths, Nora McGreevy, Odysseus, Oedipus, Scylla and Charybdis, Sphinx, Women and other monsters