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Dr Eleanor Janega Profile picture
@GoingMedieval
Aug 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Actually I was so cute at 22 that it genuinely is not fair to everyone else and also current me.
Love that I was paid to look good and actually also convinced that I was not, in fact, good looking at the same time. Being a woman is good.
Honest to god...
Also my flat in Sydney was so good. I make the worst decisions. WTF

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Mar 29, 2023
Fun fact about what happened pre-modern medicine when women gave birth at home organically in a process 'unmediated by chemical or surgical help' - birth was very much associated with 'dread and pain' because WOMEN AND BABIES JUST DIED CONSTANTLY, JANE.
In the modern era we are so divorced from the realities of childbirth because society is misogynist (obviously), women are *still* seen as birthing machines, first and foremost, and also we are pretty good at keeping women and babies alive now in clinical settings.
There are huge gaps in this! BIPOC women have much more dangerous birth outcomes! This is a fact!
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Mar 29, 2023
I know I should ignore the bad take machine, but ideas like this are so frustrating because they are so bourgeois. Jobs that entail manual labour should not be extended into old age. You can only have a take like this if you don't know working class people.
Moreover, the idea that one's existence should revolve around work is also intrinsically capitalist. Work should not be the defining characteristic of your life! Your life should be about connection, improving the world, and yes, pleasure. People don't exist to make profit!
This is all a choice. In the words of the great philosopher George Michael, 'Fun and sunshine - there's enough for everyone.' We can afford to have everyone retire and live a dignified life. We just don't because a bunch of rich dolts who don't work real jobs steal from us.
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Nov 21, 2022
Well, well, well, if it isn't the incredibly new idea of women's sexuality that I cover extensively in my upcoming book one more time, and I have time to self promote, so let's talk about why Stephen Fry is wrong, cuz a girl has books to sell.
The idea that women aren't interested in sex is *incredibly modern* in the European context for the majority of recorded human history it was considered that women were the sexualised sex. Whether you asked Aristotle or Aquinas they would tell you women were *horny* horny.
And there's a reason for this - sexuality was considered to be predicated by femininity. Men were the default gender, so sexuality and/or eros/lust would not have existed if women did not. Women were, therefore, the sexual gender and the oversexed one.
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Oct 19, 2022
If you enforce monogamy on me I am still not going to date you. Image
As a historian of gender, of course, it is also interesting to see people simply come out and admit this. Social monogamy as a cultural imperative is very much about controlling the bodies of women specifically as women can't be trusted to distribute sex in the 'right' way.
Incidentally, I cover this horror of women's sexual agency, and the conception of men as being responsible for administrating it efficiently in my forthcoming book, which is available for preorder. Just saying.
wwnorton.com/books/97803938…
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Sep 4, 2022
So yeah this is fascist ahistorical nonsense but I am on an airport so I have time to talk about why. First off let's acknowledge that it is a fasc technique to blame the issues of capitalism on feminism. The trouble isn't a failing system it is those pesky girls!!!
First the idea that women working outside the home is new is laughable and extremely modern. Women have *always* worked. The idea that women are exclusively domestic was a very short lived middle class only idea which emerged in the enlightenment and peaked with Fordism.
Working class women (and peasant women earlier) were of course working the entire time and so were women of colour who were often explicitly tasked with assisting white women in their homes during this *very brief* time period.
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Apr 10, 2022
I often talk about how the way history is taught is expressly political, and this is a perfect example. This person, who considers themself educated enough to opine on Eastern Europe, just blithely admitting that they have *no idea* why Ireland speaks English and what the UK is.
This is a personal failing, obviously, but there is also an enormous gap in the UK about acknowledging, you know, all the violent oppression. It is imperative that people actually study history in order to engage with the world around us, and it is withheld for a reason.
It is incumbent upon adults to make up for the gaps in our educations and the expressly politicised environment in which such things are taught. Otherwise you are simply colluding to keep yourself untroubled.
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