Comments on: Book giveaway: It’s got hoydens in it!

By: blue milk

blue milk — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:17:09 +0000

Yeah, I was counting this one. Hahaha.

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:31:16 +0000

Thanks Blue milk! I’ve only done one review – for the Big Issue. Unless you’re counting this post.

By: blue milk

blue milk — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:17:08 +0000

I’ve read both your reviews now, nice work.

By: M-H

M-H — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:32:22 +0000

Into the 1970s nurses (at least in NSW and possibly other states) needed their matron’s permission to get married. This was excused on the grounds that their absence would affect shiftwork rosters, but really it was an excuse to maintain control of nurses, who were virtually all women.

Yes, PC, I’d love to see that too! My mother ‘had’ to find a job when we were at primary school (my father had had surgery for cancer and couldn’t work for a while) and I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone at school, not even the nuns. The only person who knew was the woman down the road who looked after us in emergencies.

By: Late night links: stuff around the feminist blogs at Hoyden About Town

Late night links: stuff around the feminist blogs at Hoyden About Town — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:07:41 +0000

[...] Zoe at crazybrave, Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony, and Clem at the Dawn Chorus all have different ideas about the Great Feminist Denial and Dux’s opinion piece. [...]

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:13:34 +0000

The marriage ban applied to the entire public service.
For the benefit of non-Australians and gen Ys here, one of the features of old-fashioned pubs was the “ladies’ lounge”, a separate seraglio where Teh Ladies could drink their shandies and Barossa Pearl white wine.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:11:05 +0000

Bwican
Why do you keep getting stuck in the spaminator?!?
I agree, but that is the stchoopid blurb that somebody wrote.

By: brownie

brownie — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:37:53 +0000

and now I’m back from the link.
A book that “puts to rest the ailing feminist past” would HAVE to be GIVEN away.

ditto what Pavlov said:
“I often wish that, overnight and just for a week or so, every single material right and social attitude that second-wave feminists fought to change would be whisked away, just so young women could experience for themselves what life was like pre-1968 or so.”
A girl could not enter a pub, just for starters.
Air hostesses had to resign if they got married, and so did many women in other jobs. Just for starters.

By: brownie

brownie — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:33:06 +0000

I would pay good money to see
The Giggling Idiot Arndt v. St.Mae of West, the Mother Superior of Hoydens everywhere. A Monument.

“Why don’t you … com’up ‘n … seee me” was The Line.

and with it, St.Mae Created Cary’s Career.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:08:54 +0000

But I didn’t expect that my feminism would be reviled quite as much as it has been by young women. I’m not sure whether to be sad or angry

I usually go with angry, but I think the ideal response is ‘philosophical’. You hit the nail on the head when you said ‘Some young women associate feminism with their mothers’ generation, and thus reject it unexamined.’ It’s inevitable.

All the same, I often wish that, overnight and just for a week or so, every single material right and social attitude that second-wave feminists fought to change would be whisked away, just so young women could experience for themselves what life was like pre-1968 or so.

One hopeful thing I have noticed is that young women still in their 20s seem to have a different attitude again, so perhaps it’s all just going in waves.