Women's Power, Women's Oppression, Women's History
We need to know it all, the painful and the inspirational, in order to understand
Women's power and speech are contested in patriarchal systems. We need women's history to understand how this colonization came to be, and how it operates. Patriarchy is not a human default, but a historical process with a material basis. Its patterns of domination are a series of overlays embedded over time in culture, socialization and behavior, and they intersect with other systems of domination. Women remain divided, a necessary condition for domination; and our resistance is still subject to silencing and repression, even unto witch hunts.
We need to know what women's freedom and authority look like, in societies that do not colonize us on the basis of sex, and recover the positive heritages that are our birthright. Here we look at examples of female spheres of power and egalitarian matricultures structured to sustain the matrix of life rather than domination; and contrast those with societies that systemically impose male supremacy, and how they do that. We also look at how silencing women continues to be a prime weapon in the patriarchal arsenal.Visual Talks by Max Dashu. All titles are live visual presentations (average 90 minutes)
with a break midway and more time for questions and discussion.See also:
Women's Power in Global Perspective
Matricultures
By Place: Regional visual talks
