![]() ![]() That it is now common sense that ‘white top female feminism’ offers a limited view of women’s struggles, that class and color contribute to social inequality, as do experiences with slavery and ethnic oppression, is mainly due to bell hooks (who name without capital letters), the American feminist icon that passed away in 2021. In the house it is dangerous and obscene Image by: Feminist Press Because there is a straight line from Smit’s observation from 1967 (‘A woman who her raison d’être looking outside her family is suspicious’) to the appalled reactions in 2022 of Telegraphreaders on the first female finance minister: she must be devious and incompetent. Because it’s full of sentences that could still be: ‘They are apparently not up to the concept of equality.’ Because you think about the sentence: Ah, that’s where all those gender patterns come from. Smit explains in crystal-clear and witty prose what is going on: Dutch women in the mid-1960s ‘have it bad’. It is not only for this reason that ‘On the discomfort of women’ (On the discomfort of women) (included in the antiquarian collection There is a country where women want to live) still such a nice read. ![]() That ‘short job’ for fifty-four years and counting would be, Smit had not dared to think. When Joke Smit – journalist, writer and in the Netherlands one of the founders of the second wave of feminism – wrote in 1967 that ‘there are still industries in which women with equal or equivalent work earn less than men’, she added that this was a ‘ short track problem. ![]()
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