Thank you for sharing all this amazing info! Dolores Alexander is so fascinating for me. I did a research project of Genevieve Tabouis, a French diplomatic journalist, focused on her work surrounding WWII. One of the things that most disappointed me (although she was still such an incredible figure) was that while she was so fully aware of the impact of gender and patriarchy, she never got super involved in the women’s movement in France or the U.S. It’s so wonderful to hear about other female journalists who did embrace feminism. And a very interesting connection to Anne Helen Peterson’s most recent post in the Culture Study Interview Series with Dr. Alex D. Ketchum, on feminist restaurants which even mentioned Mother Courage! Link here: https://open.substack.com/pub/annehelen/p/the-fascinating-history-of-feminist?r=2n7mh&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Thank you for sharing all this amazing info! Dolores Alexander is so fascinating for me. I did a research project of Genevieve Tabouis, a French diplomatic journalist, focused on her work surrounding WWII. One of the things that most disappointed me (although she was still such an incredible figure) was that while she was so fully aware of the impact of gender and patriarchy, she never got super involved in the women’s movement in France or the U.S. It’s so wonderful to hear about other female journalists who did embrace feminism. And a very interesting connection to Anne Helen Peterson’s most recent post in the Culture Study Interview Series with Dr. Alex D. Ketchum, on feminist restaurants which even mentioned Mother Courage! Link here: https://open.substack.com/pub/annehelen/p/the-fascinating-history-of-feminist?r=2n7mh&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Oh I hadn’t seen that, thank you! Yeah, this generation of women had very complicated relationships with feminism.