Feminist Walking Tour March 8th (1 Viewer)

[Shine]

Feminist Walking Tour - March 8th

Celebrate International Women's Day

What? Feminist Walking Tour
When? IWD Sat March 8th, 2.30pm
Where? Meet at Stephen's Green Arch
Why? Education, Celebration, Visibility, Solidarity, Fun!

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Celebrate International Women's Day by joining us on a Feminist Walking Tour of Dublin city centre. The tour is free (although donations welcome) and will last approx 2 hours. All are welcome to attend - no need to book. You are also invited to come along in your best drag/ feminist fancy dress! Meet on Sat March 8th at 2.30pm at the main entrance to Stephen's Green (opposite the shopping centre).


The tour will be an informative and entertaining take on women's history in Ireland - from the Brehon Laws, through women's role in the early formation of the state, labour movements, the resurgence of feminism in the 1970's, the movement against domestic/sexual violence, and the continuing struggle for reproductive rights. There will be a particular emphasis on the contemporary women's movement in its many guises and acknowledging the challenges facing all women, particularly those experiencing poverty or exclusion and women from minority ethnic communities.

An information booklet/map will be provided on the day (and an activity sheet to keep the younger feminists amused!)


The tour will be followed by a social event in the evening with music and fun!
This takes place in the Teacher's Club Parnell St from 5-8 pm. Soup, film screenings, information table/ RAG distro, music from Heathers.

For more information/ to help out, email [email protected]
Or phone 086 3293741


The tour is being organised by members of Choice Ireland in association with the RAG collective and other women's/feminist groups and individuals.


press release
wikipedia info on the day
national women's council listings for events on the day
international listings

 

[Shine]

if anyone can't make it but is interested, mail [email protected] for a copy of the (amazingly beautiful informative and freee!) booklet - pdf or hardcopy x

 

[Froog]

who is going to read the "map provided"?

 

[broken arm]

i think this is a deadly idea - pity i can't make it.

 

[Shine]

who is going to read the "map provided"?

eh... is this a trick question?

carbide did the map - it's beautiful

broken arm, email if you want us to keep u a booklet and you can do it another time - or just read the booklet and imagine you're doing it or whatever

 

[sweetoblivion]

Excellent idea! I'll be in Cork unfortunately. Good luck with it! ;D

 

[carbide]

eh... is this a trick question?

carbide did the map - it's beautiful

broken arm, email if you want us to keep u a booklet and you can do it another time - or just read the booklet and imagine you're doing it or whatever

we should also have a public google map by next week - not going to get to update it this week but i'll post a link then.

(shine - you sweetheart, me "tone nazi", i hear?)

 

[travispickle]

Must encourage the gf to go to this; sure it'll get her out of the house.

 

[Froog]

Must encourage the gf to go to this; sure it'll get her out of the house.

but who will make your dinner?

 

[jane]

Will she be able to drag the cooker the whole way, though? If not, you might consider unshackling her for the afternoon.

I'm bringing a special diorama I made of a kitchen. It fits around my neck and allows me to bring the experience of my rightful place with me wherever I go. It's amazing.

 

[therealjohnny]

The tour will come to a complete halt if it passes any shoe/handbag/kitten shops

 

[therealjohnny]

and chocolate

 

[magicbastarder]

anyone ever read fintan o'toole's piece about the theory that women returning to the workplace was one of the main drivers of the celtic tiger?

 

[therealjohnny]

enough of the"woman drivers" wisecracks already


oh..sorry

 

[jane]

anyone ever read fintan o'toole's piece about the theory that women returning to the workplace was one of the main drivers of the celtic tiger?

I haven't read this particular piece, but it's a theory I've heard a few times, and I think it's pretty interesting. I don't know much about economic theory, but it seems to make practical sense: huge influx of new working people, more money is generated, more jobs are generated, etc. I'm sure it's more complex than that, but I imagine women in the workplace was a great facilitator of the economic boom.

What's funny is that the same idea I have also heard extrapolated outward to blame women returning to the workplace (although, you know, working-class women never left it....and domestic work is still work, yadda yadda yadda, necessary feminist disclaimer) for DESTROYING THE RURAL IRISH LANDSCAPE. You see, the Celtic Tiger has brought prosperity to Ireland which has meant more houses, more unchecked rural bungalow construction, more exurban estates, etc. And if it weren't for all these women with their bloody PAYCHECKS and their KITTENS and their HANDSHOES, we'd still have the rural idyll that exemplifies This Great Nation.

 

[magicbastarder]

according to an engineer i know, the single biggest contributor to bungalow blight is that the ESB are legally required to string cables to your house once you have planning permission. in the UK, no such onus is on the electricity providers, which means they can tell people to bog off (pun unintended) when they want to build their new house in the middle of nowhere.

 

[magicbastarder]

What's funny is that the same idea I have also heard extrapolated outward to blame women returning to the workplace (although, you know, working-class women never left it....and domestic work is still work, yadda yadda yadda, necessary feminist disclaimer) for DESTROYING THE RURAL IRISH LANDSCAPE.

i haven't heard that theory before; the one i have heard people discussing was the lessening of parental control, given that families are much more likely to have two working parents these days.
i'd say the argument has some merit, but it's probably more a parenting issue than a feminist issue, even though for a lot of people, the choice will come down to the mother staying at home because she's likely to be earning less.

 

[jane]

I didn't know that at all at all.

Still, it's we wimminses fault the houses are built in the first place. You know, so we can have big storage sheds for all of our handbags and kittens.

 

[jane]

i haven't heard that theory before; the one i have heard people discussing was the lessening of parental control, given that families are much more likely to have two working parents these days.
i'd say the argument has some merit, but it's probably more a parenting issue than a feminist issue, even though for a lot of people, the choice will come down to the mother staying at home because she's likely to be earning less.

Yeah, but women also end up having their work not valued as much. It's ingrained in both men and women that no matter what a woman is doing, it's not breadwinning. My ma has been the breadwinner for about the last 25 years, and while she still gets seen as the Vicar's wife, he doesn't get seen as the husband, if that makes sense.

Oh, yeah, I've heard the breakdown in the family blamed on women, but of course, the working class women were working this whole time. And now, for most families, there isn't any choice but to have two people working.

I think the argument is probably less about the breakdown in family and maybe more likely connected with the way communities work now, the commuter culture (which isn't anyone's fault) that means we don't stop by our neighbour's house for a cup of sugar anymore, or have the kids playing outside in the street so much. Kids are becoming overmanaged and overscheduled so they don't learn to use their imaginations or develop their own coping skills, and parents feel guilty for not spending time with them, os they spoil them. It's the biggest fear I have of raising kids in the US, the culture of trying to create perfect little prodigies and medicating children who aren't performing well (it's going that way here, but is nowhere near as bad). People forget how to use their instincts. It's amazing that there are people that 'blame' the supposed breakdown on women, but they do it.

It should also be pointed out that there were always gangs of ruffians roaming the streets, randomly attacking people. And they always came from all walks of life and were of all genders and backgrounds. Not that that's news to anyone, but I don't see how society is more broken than it ever was -- just broken in a different way.


Anyway guyze, I'd better go. As the man's t-shirt says, "It ain't gonna suck itself."

 

[broken arm]

Yeah, but women also end up having their work not valued as much.

is there still much gender deviation in certain subjects at all levels of education?

the mechanics of why this is so are (probably) interesting.