These women gave birth tothe healthiest, strongest, and best proportioned men whoever lived, and except in certain islands of ill repute, no
How accurate is this portrayal of women in ancient Greece, and what evidence do historians provide to challenge it? Women in Ancient Greece – World History Encyclopedia .
She is more eager for adornment than for food.
Emphasizes cultural priorities placed on beauty over basic needs; is this a natural tendency or a socially constructed one?
not even the Roman matrons,
Comparison that elevates Greek women above Roman ideals. Notice the idealization of women as “wise, charming, beautiful, virtuous”, qualities that sound more like cultural ideals than historical reality.
These women gave birth tothe healthiest, strongest, and best proportioned men
Praises Greek women not for their individual achievements but for their role in producing strong male citizens, reinforcing patriarchal values.
Peoplehave been telling the life story for ages, in all sorts of words andways . Myths of creation and transformation, trickster stories, folk-tales, jokes, novels ...
Non-heroic, communal, playful forms of storytelling (folk tales, humor, novels) carry the alternative narrative.
the bomb fell on Nagasaki and how the burning jelly fell on thevillagers and how the missiles will fall on the Evil Empire, and all theother steps in the Ascent of Man.
She critiques how the dominant story of “progress” is tied to violence, war, and destruction.
never felt groundedbefore. So long as culture was explained as originating from a ndelaborating upon the use of long, hard objects for sticking, bashing,and killing, I never thought that I had, or wanted, any particularshare in it. ("What Freud mistook for her lack of civilization iswoman's lack of loyalty to civilization," Lillian Smith observed.)
Le Guin contrasts weapons with containers (bags, baskets, vessels).