wayyyyy cool
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on February 05, 2000 at 00:26:07:
In Reply to: Web Site Up & No Longer Lurching posted by Kree Arvanitas on February 04, 2000 at 23:06:27:
Damn, you're good! REALLY good!
I've heard the feminist rant against henna mostly from some very hurt
and angry women who are ethnically Middle Eastern, and haven't gotten
past rage they have about relationships with older members of family.
It's some pretty miserable immigrant experience stuff. I do a lot of
listening when I'm hennaeing Lebanese and Palestinian ladies
hereabouts. There's a lot of very real pain going on that is tangent
to henna and women's experience. That's one of the reasons I am so
bloodyminded about persuing a larger view of women's experience with
henna, and it's origins. There are so many points of view to be heard,
so many experiences, that openmindedness is crucial.
Some particularly enlightening books on the experiences the ME women
have with marriage, henna, identity, and the like are in "Price of
Honor" (don't have the author, daughter borrowed the book and hasn't
brought it back) and "Beyond the Veil" by Fatima Mernisi, second
edition ...
It certainly doesn't take a lot of historical digging to see the part
henna has played as a symbol of power, independence, and strength, and
sexuality in women. (not to mention the occasions of vengeance,
victory, and once in a great while, killing everybody in sight.)
- Re: wayyyyy cool Kenzi 01:43:37 2/05/00
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