“In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.” MenYearsMindLongHas BeensBodyConceptsVictimNotionMotherhoodTraditionalLegacyMind And BodyChastityLong Legs Author:Taslima Nasrin
“It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.” PeopleMenBodyGovernmentFoundCausesCommonPayTaxesPressesNotionCreditDuesAdministrationDiversionCarrying On Author:Gertrude Stein
“Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.” IfsWayDoeImportantFeelingsBodyDesireForceSocialInfluenceActivityNotionMediumsPerceiveMeaninglessTranscendenceFormationSubjectivity Author:Susan McClary
“There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.” PeopleSoulBodyMovementTravelDiscoveryTrainNotionConnectedSignificantVoyagesDisplacement Author:Margaret Drabble