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LilithOctober 15, 2023
There's evidence women invented writing. They ran the temples where writing was first discovered and the oldest known poet is a woman.
Even before alphabets, we've found women carving timesticks to count out their cycles.
Re-enacterfOctober 15, 2023
So women invented the month, really
LilithOctober 16, 2023
Women invented the lunar calendar. Solar calendars came much later, because men are more concerned about crops and when to plant and harvest than they are with a woman's cycle and fertility.
So, yeah.
notsofreshfeelingOctober 15, 2023
Thank you so much for sharing this! I am sort of on a medieval kick right now, so I will put this on my list of books to read.
Why am I not surprised to see that Bede appropriated women's commentaries and histories and gave them no credit. The practice continues centuries later.
In grad school for my PhD, I spent a summer at the India Office Library and Records researching for my dissertation. When I returned home to the US, I talked to my committee chair, who had never been there, about my experiences; that same week, I sat in his seminar and listened to him describe to the class what it was like to research there. No mention of where he got his information, and the implication was that he was speaking from firsthand experience, using my account of my experience to aggrandize himself.
Ah, I experienced something similar in graduate school, except it was a female professor who gave credit to a male student for my ideas. The male student had to remind her that he had only been offering his own comments on my idea, but she STILL did not care. I will never forget that class because NEARLY ALL of the female students dropped it.
Good for those women. No doubt they could all read the handwriting on the wall.