The Ladies Wing 

of Classical Figures and Contemporary Photographic Portraits

 Room 2: The Moderns

Hannah Arendt

Tried to make sense of the Nazis...somehow concluded that political participation was a GOOD thing.

Simone de Beauvoir

Wrote on the 'ethics of ambiguity' and of course 'the second sex'. Said that woman is the Other...

Margaret Fuller

Friend of the Ladywing Curator's

(perhaps)

Susanne Langer

Invented complicated theory of art as some sort of linguistic 'semantics'... ugh! (geddit?)

Simone Veil

said that 'real genius is nothing but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.. '

Luce Irigaray

Said that without the maternal, nurturing support of wimmin, men would not have been able to write 'philosophy'. And she is considered a feminist!'...

 

This Wing unwittingly sponsored by the Women's studies Gallery of the University of Iowa


 


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