Pelea de gallos by María Fernanda Ampuero

She immediately became a sensation in Surinamese literature Sarnami, hi (meaning: ‘Suriname, I am’ in Sarnami, the language of the Hindus) was published in 1969. She is upstairs, she is always upstairs”). grows up in colonial Surinam with the indomitable desire to be visible for God’s sake (“She exists. Which in turn led to angry criticism of hooks: why the hell cats on a black woman with enormous artistic and commercial success, when there are still so many uplifted mediocre men walking around who urgently need to be dealt with? Finally a girl’s perspective Image by: Querido Hooks didn’t like it: too commercial, too simplistic, too slick, too harmless, too much of an imitation of powerful men. Later hooks wrote the more compact entry-level work Feminism is for Everybodyabout feminism as a political movement that is also about class and color and touches on virtually every aspect of life.Īlso worth reading is her 2016 critique of the new feminism Beyoncé promoted on her album Lemonade (in, among others The Guardian published). A classic that should not be missing on the shelf of essential literature. That black women already had the lowest status during slavery, even among black men, and how that affects the present. She explained it all in 1981 Ain’t I a woman, black women and feminism.

That it is now common sense that ‘white top female feminism’ offers a limited view of women’s struggles, that class and color contribute to social inequality, as do experiences with slavery and ethnic oppression, is mainly due to bell hooks (who name without capital letters), the American feminist icon that passed away in 2021. In the house it is dangerous and obscene Image by: Feminist Press Because there is a straight line from Smit’s observation from 1967 (‘A woman who her raison d’être looking outside her family is suspicious’) to the appalled reactions in 2022 of Telegraphreaders on the first female finance minister: she must be devious and incompetent. Because it’s full of sentences that could still be: ‘They are apparently not up to the concept of equality.’ Because you think about the sentence: Ah, that’s where all those gender patterns come from. Smit explains in crystal-clear and witty prose what is going on: Dutch women in the mid-1960s ‘have it bad’. It is not only for this reason that ‘On the discomfort of women’ (On the discomfort of women) (included in the antiquarian collection There is a country where women want to live) still such a nice read. That ‘short job’ for fifty-four years and counting would be, Smit had not dared to think. When Joke Smit – journalist, writer and in the Netherlands one of the founders of the second wave of feminism – wrote in 1967 that ‘there are still industries in which women with equal or equivalent work earn less than men’, she added that this was a ‘ short track problem.

Pelea de gallos by María Fernanda Ampuero