Caroline Bird | |
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Born | (1915-04-15)April 15, 1915 New York City, New York, US |
Died | January 11, 2011(2011-01-11) (aged 95) |
Other names | Caroline Bird Mahoney |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Author |
Notable work | Born Female (1968) |
Movement | Feminism |
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Caroline Bird Mahoney (1915–2011) was an American feminist author.[1]
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good afternoon everyone and welcome to the twenty twelve ingersoll lecturer on immortality i feel exceptionally fortunate to have had my life at harvard punctuated by opportunities to listen to and learn from today's distinguished lecture shortly after i arrived at harvard and two thousand one toni morrison delivered the fifth radcliffe institute inaugural lecture here in sanders theatre with the audience rising to applaud her before she had ordered a single word in two thousand seven she received the radcliffe mammal on that very last days treated very less days of my deanship and four months later she gave a reading on the eve of minority rations as president said to me earlier this afternoon that i'm one of four women president she adopted so unfilled very grateful television was responsible for everything that happens then half a decade later it is such as you like to welcome tony marcin back to harvard she has spoken of artists whose voices are and i quote or powerfully different profoundly different and we recognize that she is in their company she has been turned heads with her writings demanding are undivided attention and rewarding our effort at the intersection and i quote yr where their historical becomes people with names today she is here to contribute once again to one-up harvard's great intellectual traditions maybe even greater this year through the drawing together at students faculty and staff from across the university an alumni and friends in the broader community over the course of the semester faculty from the divinity school and the faculty of arts and sciences have led lectures and workshops centered on the religious dimensions of toni morrison's writings this event is in many ways the culmination of those conversations i thank professor study brasco and stephanie paul cell for establishing and leading the series and i think all of you who took the time to participate in and of course angst and my deepest appreciation to dean david hampton for supporting initiatives to create these types of learning and teaching communities religion shapes individuals and societies its study whether prompted by spiraling entrance or by the life of practice is essential as is the harvard divinity school welcome once again to the twenty twelve ingersoll lecture on immortality and now please join me in welcoming dean david thank you president files zero at warm words are welcome for your wonderful leadership of harvard and for accusing to be here with us tonight each year at the beginning of the engrossed so lecture the thing are custom to explaining the anger soul and download undefined organised benefactor miss caroline haskell ingersoll tonight however in order provide as much time as possible to electric cell we print of the information about the interest of the the ingersoll lecture fund in the program so i called you to read it under reflect that while the anger slowing down want those not in itself guarantee and mortality that has lasted for over a century leads to the move in the right direction so if immortality is on your mind a harvard and almonds seems to be the way to go and but tonight's distinguished bigger noble laurette but the prize winning writer tonymar awesome is the eighty-fifth speaker and a long line of internationally renowned scholars and writers will come by harvard together in this election the list includes william james as the second presenter in eighteen ninety seven desai rollers in eighteen ninety-nine howard thurman in nineteen forty seven hold till it nineteen sixty two carolyn walker bynum nineteen eighty nine karen armstrong two thousand five i'm tonymar austin's princeton colleague i'll revocable in two thousand and ten so tonight we had the pleasure of hearing another brilliant scholar on writer reflect on the theme of immortality which lets be almost is not a public much-discussed at harvard tonymar arsonist chosen intertidal goodness altruism military imagination it's not my pleasure to call on my good friend and colleague in the faculty of divinity professor dudley car asco introduces evening speaker the beavers and self a wonderfully a man to the stolen rider is in ny a well-written spine professor of the study of latin america with the joint appointment in the department of anthropology in the faculty of arts and sciences i have to say that without that the that because they initiative and persuasive powers we would not be gathered here this evening in addition i was studied idea along with my colleague stephanie also to turn our annual ingersoll lecture and a semester long set of workshops culminating in tonight's event and we had one at uh... lunchtime today which is really wonderful that was a genius idea and of the local in one of the most intellectually stimulating and deeply humane set of discussions about the probe into the plan then at any university anywhere so tonight there is a combination of something very special and the life of harvard before i hand over to professor karan scoops of please allow me a brief but sincere thank you to every one of our murder than it is still two f_a_a_ ass as well as here memorial hall the contribute their time and where to making this event come true now without further right to deduct calling professor perhaps go to come forward and introduced this former princeton colleague at some time travel companion longtime friend and our distinguished speaker tonymar awesome the final words and toni morrison's nobel prize acceptance speech or spoken by the all-woman blind but once to the young people who have come the challenge her powers of clairvoyance tony rights finally she says i trust you know i trust you with the bird that is not in your hands because you have truly call it locally it is this thing we have done we learn in this speech the from morrison the bird that is not in our hands signifies language professor morris is range of language usage clearer to me one afternoon at princeton university when we were talking about the religious dimensions of her novels i told her high have identified two ways that's a quality shaped her writings first christian imagery and meanings appeared in the sermons of paradise the apocalypse of solar and names like first corinthians chat back and celestial she nodded in interest certainly i spoke to her of the way is african myths wisdom and magical flight appeared in the song of solomon and the entanglements of african roots shaped the characters in her novel parbe tony counter that's fine dot me but you've left out the third dimension what does that i asked blind eyes all she said you've left out all the strange stuff all at the harvard university are working group entitled have mercy religious dimensions in the writings of toni morrison has explored these and other religious dimensions of her writings and we've learned of the multiple ways she writes and teachers and has revitalized ever use of american literature and how she reveals our own ways of being and inhuman we learned that she spent many years of her life among students and colleagues on college campuses at texas southern howard university albany yale and princeton where she is still the robert escorting professor of humanities emeritus we learned of the power an appeal of her writings resulted in the national book critics' award for song of solomon the pulitzer prize for beloved and in nineteen ninety three the nobel prize in literature but do you know that she's also written plays one called dreamy nanded but emmett till black youths from chicago who was brutally beaten and shot to death thirty years ago during a visit to mississippi apparently because he was a little white woman as she wrote another play called does the mona an interactive narrative of words music and song about shakespeare's heroine who speaks to the audience from the grave but the traumas of race class gender in war and the transformative power of love she wrote a libretto for an opera called margaret garner students go look up the name margaret garner but not this minute she co-edited books for children with her son slate morrison rule of which are called the book of mean people and p need butter fudge we learned that she was awarded the legion of honor in france and she's recently been awarded the presidential needham medal of freedom alike that list last word for her and for us length that this immortal writer was coming to harvard to talk about immortality we begin to pay more attention to the unspeakable things spoken in her writings and then the lives of her characters you know them colour breedlove baby sounds shot reckoned paul d highland hager challenged us puzzled us criticized us and we felt that morrison's language help us hold together those pieces of our lives that are the hardest to hold onto we discovered the cornell west was correct when he celebrated her nobel prize by claiming that she had quote shattered invisibility we learned in our dialogues about beloved in-home that she has unmasked the lethal lie of the myth of american innocence it's tenacity and its damage she showed us that for the politics of storytelling to be deep in sustaining it had to touch the sacred in african american life or better the sacred and profane of being black in america and the miracle of blacks writings the critic john leonard said it this way out of the gospel of the middle passage the blues of slavery the jazz a big city ghetto nights mother wit and children's riddle she had made radiant world literature we marveled how she maintain the flights of her burns of language we felt motivated when we found is earlier reference to the theme of life death then perhaps immortality tony rights that may be here that maybe the meaning of life but we do language that maybe the measure of our lives so i say students take heed not only of her novels little her writings including her literary criticism of the book called playin in the dark whiteness and the literary imagination for on this darkening needs in the year twenty twelve with strange stuff all around us she has come to be together with us here at harvard into a muscle tools to speak on the topic the goodness altruism in the literary imagination please welcome toni morrison on and tulua morning in two thousand say the young man and his trial into reading and we need to that's cool he walked into the school an extraordinary man students the teaching and few other adults to leave in london tender along pages now depicting kneecap and uh... the mondrian hara ten do intense and siemens as well and the honorable sandhill although they had been to another school she demands linking these before what made this massacre especially notable was the fact that it's my understanding lives and comments communion non-communist groupies the most unlike continue from scratch before the narrative tracking the slaughter had given me an exhausting in the press another radio one that was regarded as bizarre and somehow shop as the killings themselves amish community for the the hughes to see castings demanded vengeance on even to get him being visited and competent killers within the killers children who are not homage just as they embraced the relatives out there and there were a number of things the nation's for that behavior their historical abrasion to kill anyone at all any reason and their separatists conviction but more to the point the community had or very good outside he said it was god's me tequilla and is one grandfather some of the younger people do not thing of this man the helm press conferences or submitted to television interviews the quietly they re indian tended complex him tore down the road and you know and you want their science following that slaughter along and any d infancy concern ridiculous and seemed to me characteristic of jeannine when bigness and so i became fascinated even then with the term and it's definition now that i think the reason for men is his own informed as i have who have long analyze what constitutes goodness is good and what gives our agency are on a dvd immunity of these theories and they had overwhelming and slow to reduce my confusion i thought i should just be staged a turn altimeter but again i quickly from what's up uh... frustrating journey into on missions and competent condition and beginning and i think you know how to resubmit smallest paypal rendition of hit submit alter selfless compassion them other at the stranger but that was not just also led to it small interpretation commentary analyses and down now if you have been made theories arguments posited about altruism out to resist adding stinky selflessness it's nothing about instinct it's tot and you've leonard another my second views that altruism might actually be simply narcissism ego enhancement even a mental disorder made manifest in a desperate design tipping twelve months now communities would diminish unlimited b self loan but some of the most thought provoking theory angel scholarship that is investigating the d_n_a_ if you frank tapes seeking evidence opinion bt g argumentative five to enable the sacrifice of oneself but the benefit of others was the kind of brother assistant two down and survival of the pages examples of conformational contradiction to them darwinian theories came primarily as you might imagine from that animal and thanked kingdom you know squirrels delivering the being with you squeaks attention to themselves by the predators inability to won the abuse birds as well and especially hands as you know pc next online service to the colony this one and such behavior we seem to have to be viewed among human but the question cdb whether such a sacrifice for it pain relatives offer the community at large is inmate as it were into our jeanne just as individual conquest of others is held to be an actual instinctive drive that saves evolution is there a good along with the selfish different question for me kidneys was an unspoken increase about the competition between the dean and uh... now have to confess i was unable contest and a great deal of that scholarship altruism but i didn't learn something about its weight it's thirteen c it's relevance and its erupt in contemporary dot keeping those amish in mind i wanted to live in an impact abed the press visual media cleveland picture and disliking children and began to focus almost since on the shop forgiveness i say no to purely a mass shootings at schools were perhaps to it debate too elsewhere doing just a few days before but diverse communities unwillingness to clamor gestures binge and stuff mitigation and even to chat once the compelling story the shop was that the parents of the dead killed and two pains to comfort the killers widow of a family picture opened sprays funds for them and had children not finance i've been victimized community's response to that i suppose example of evil to their refusal to fix blamed the most extraordinary element was there it was that side to be used to be there that that cause need to begin to think a little bit differently about business as it applies to the work that i do of course thinking about that next supplies indeed quiet abuse of it outcasts now i have to tell you i'm never going to stick or impress back to you but i have been com by how attractive it is to and sp and stunned by the attention give in to youtube every quiz activation which is not a good night's existence and ravage nor to suggest evil does not demand computation the simply to wonder on the easiest solution especially in chick chat is it it's theatricality it's cuts too it's blood sperry the emotional satisfaction that comes with it it's investigation more then widgets come back you know ultimate detective story the paradigm rates to be perhaps the town plant and the music inspectors it's clothing it's make it means factual scott it's passionate and aids the formula and which evil dream is of course bed basis good but the dead instead because goodness in contemporary pictures scenes always t_v_ went into it and too silicone running frightening and helpless to the woods while the pursuing villain gets more haha attention three he will have some fun buster goodness lurks vexed ting evil has vivid speech and goodness bytes it style it's really bad hoops doctors it's going to seize michael but the head of it it's a limit to speak communication with him this picture of the impossible at mail bills box p confining language to repetition it's faulkner's being needy rather than rummage through the exquisite persuasive language although quick to applaud believers to reign in this has the highest and holiest a few in the chief and many of which is identified as saints and icons of worship as examples many times chuck keeler falters i decided not to focus on the religious language but on the role the displays in literature in fiction to use that as a kind of tents in the nineteenth century novels the pakistan whenever acts of meat wickedness of cruelty so it's controlled the ending was almost always the china goodness reconciliation dickinson austin in hyd you those three days left there those writers and that the readers with a sense of the restoration of order and the trying approaches you in just a asking remembers he did not and crime the world's most heat becomes exhausted by his school and the language that supports it and interns to do a good deal and become sold with the terminal acts of charity impeachment since you can't live with the language of the evening known within the silence of d infinitiofgwinnett exceptions to work could be cool this nineteenth-century formula which is invested in identifying clearly is good obviously dont be voting andy both of which tomorrow that said triple killer witness and other exceptions to that formula i still possible than they do it the criticism are daily back by mail and even moby dick which supported multiple interpretations regarding the rank the power of the mean thank goodness is even in these tents the consequence of delays birds innocence his execution is ishmaol good is a have a template for goodness fighting he pretty dang or at least you wanted the intro outfall cst by india technique which is the commitment innocent representing acted it's an abandoned swapped i've seen generally how having nineteenth-century educator whatever the forces of the matter is that the tennis is faced with rededication and the time abridge it was his or her reward now twentieth-century novelist where unimpressed the movement away from having indians living charlie look good over evil was very rapid barry scott particularly after world war ekak asking people if two y to ignore but to just do it with the simplistic gesture thank goodness many early modern not especially in there concentrated on mature redeemable consequences the harm debate to its warplanes to sister to humans that simple in those text acts of ship goodness right comical achievement irony yet oregon excellent compass suspicion fruitless spent works right income faulkner's attorney in the mixed reviews we've received most of which were and disobeying of the liberal dubbed the delivering armistice the center that will between soldiers and trench warfare began in taiwan tie the americans on the other an armistice disapproval nine slightly tan some limited these days to them sacrificing dead first responders running into higher building needs throwing themselves on their neighbors to save the lives of others rescuing the drowning the war clearly fall this character in the table nam the scene or preached evil the hence intellectual plaque an almighty he demanded and examination of its consequences state me you the lid you successes help melon missed chances for krister often seemed to be contemporary litigious content u-haul insisting goodness it's an audience lot assuming even has a ticket one of the most compelling from the example of this obsession with he umberto eco i was calling in the prog read yet it's not relief aid amnesty ms boarded the title and looked it up and i don't remember it but anyway america and brown death destruction companies for nearly a billion a lifetime it didn't go with the man who've they da dewey's m pro-nazi uh... protocols in character in a bit of echoes book writes that and when you read it isolated you feel very speedy i mean you know if they made union list it's so awful if you like to texan recruited really there in any case that's an example they're gay and a deeply deeply disturbing because of its fascination with the nature of the and a disturbance at cal was precisely pickup heat-treated intent and the scorned of the monotony and steve pete of good intemperate issue is not interested in bigness on a larger even inmates came well it appears it's always a denoted holocene ten day has trouble speaking it to me for every day to kill a mockingbird theories wise blood or good man's heart to come striking goodness down with the world bearing nearly twentieth century and early twentieth-century heavyweight philippa lawman who saw about and so on and many others a masters exposing the frailty pointless and the comedy well i thought it would be interesting do you frightening to me you'd probably be informative to examine this defect stepping through on a life and or the death of goodness in the kitchen by using my own one i wanted to make it and plan ahead my whole understand by employing the definitions i gave you earlier about tourism anti-terrorism to look at the very goodness talk and learn hehehehe accountants changes or taking risks for them too criticism form of maths assistant you go in and men believe in a mental disorder that missus instinct and resultant genetic protecting go once again as an example his habit i'd learned to goodness i think named anyway in mercy here's a priest who had some danger to himself teaches female slaves dvd enright now in cases is under misunderstood as simple kindness using example punishments levied on white people who risked promoting literacy among black people anyway preston assembling sleeves for purposes of instructing them to me all right also seeing within any unlawful family saleby and find indian maddox the six months and design magic feeding hundred dollars and some of them of course was simply matched but that texas in criminal law as late as eighteen for you the priest says that speak he simply takes what he has been taught orlando possibly simply p and give the obliged to do pilot in the marshes experienced teaching the the montana and the children fillets example of three just sort of instinctive can detection is the most common and that isn't it goodness and it was so periods in which i do not be in have you know what to do nation in my own work into love mother stipulated train we get the ancient money and uh... t_-fifty from time despair him and others as below the site itself destruction now this is just a moment who throws herself out of the window his favor dot i'm fine these acts seem to defy to theatrical in our company buying those compelling on the other hand it is to giving away upon to china to exchange an in order to save uh... from certain molestation in the murder scene the motive that inhalants florence mother on your mind seems to me cloves totalitarianism and most importantly is given mine which i hope would be a profound and little definition and she said to be given to me given to me over another behind to rest is the wrong to give dominion of mr to them another example of three unquestioning compassion and support not just a can but have memories of the group in home for example women provide unsolicited is necessary in the recent pic to a member of the collective who has spent her life dispensing the reason their responsibility too dot the did not want to meet them maker and have nothing to say when he pack what have you further incidents of inmate compassion ezekiel leniency and i've seen physically excuse me home physically as well as mentally it was important to me in compassion callings to use them is that propels them you free napkin and nobody is obliged to save you and a serious limitation you knwo which you christine somewhere inside is that creepers looking at and that had to miss him an example but this is a former nazi system and perhaps mental disability really interested a phrase book and universitat determined to erase itself clumping soviet checked a character who is down to uses to give of picked indian blew up to limit their it's like i'm me update in his medicare speak you speak long lol many any american himself doing the good that god has been cubes and misunderstood the diabolical as his money because views by the bank group of narcissus i suppose feminist is lying overtown believe these last fourteen years had become more and more invested in making chillin acts of goodness however casual deliberate on misapplied unlike the undisputed bless produced line even when not particularly like teaching treats such xmas a strong impact i'm a novel struck and on its meaning expressions of goodness and never truly in and never incidental in my mind in fact i want them to have tune and to illuminate sciences the moral question invaded in the name it was important to me that none of these expressions of protest the handled com of our time andy excel allowing goodness its own speech does not and i have been but it does allowed me signified understanding apartments acquisition style as satisfactory agreement for me is when the protagonist learned something vital and marlene cycle and mature that she or he did not at the beginning claudius worked i think into the next step that the land of the entire country as hostile turn that down they saw his bday facing actor safety seats it will not be chain certain fruit them out there and mary of its own and save the date way today we uh... but it doesn't matter it's too late at least on the edge of my town among uh... regions sunflower i might add is march searching this site has nothing to do with winning and everything to do the deposition knowledge on displaying in the language of moral clapped of good
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Early life and education
Born on April 15, 1915, in New York City, Caroline Bird became the youngest member of the Vassar College class of 1935 at the age of 16, but left after her junior year to marry; she later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toledo and a Master of Arts degree in comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin.[1][2]
Career
Her books include The Invisible Scar (1966), Everything a Women Needs to Know to Get Paid What She's Worth (1973), Case Against College (1975), The Crowding Syndrome: Learning to Live With Too Much and Too Many (1976), Enterprising Women (1976), What Women Want (1979), The Two-Paycheck Marriage (1979), Second Careers (1992), and Lives of Our Own (1995).[1] Her book The Invisible Scar, about the Great Depression, was named by the American Library Association as one of the 100 most significant books of the year.[1]
Caroline's 1968 book, Born Female: the High Cost of Keeping Women Down, grew out of an article on discrimination against women in business that was rejected by The Saturday Evening Post. Years later when Sofia Montenegro, an award-winning Nicaraguan journalist and prominent feminist activist, was asked how she became a revolutionary, she said that she would never forget the book that had changed her life; she was 16 years old when she read Born Female: the High Cost of Keeping Women Down.[3]
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first time the term sexism appeared in print was in Bird's speech "On Being Born Female", which was delivered before the Episcopal Church Executive Council in Greenwich, Connecticut, and subsequently published on November 15, 1968, in Vital Speeches of the Day (p. 6).[4] In this speech she said in part: "There is recognition abroad that we are in many ways a sexist country. Sexism is judging people by their sex when sex doesn't matter. Sexism is intended to rhyme with racism. Women are sexists as often as men."[5]
In 1977, Bird became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP).[6] WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.
Bird was a consultant to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year in 1977 and was the chief writer of its report, The Spirit of Houston (1978).[1]
In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Bird's name and picture.[7]
She died on January 11, 2011, in Nashville, Tennessee. The Caroline Bird Papers, 1915–1995, are held at the Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.[1]
Personal life
She married Edward A. Menuez in 1934 and they divorced in 1945; in 1957 she married J. Thomas Mahoney, who died in 1981.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Guide to the Caroline Bird Papers, 1915–1995 - Archives & Special Collections Library - Vassar College". Specialcollections.vassar.edu. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
- ^ a b "CAROLINE BIRD Obituary". The New York Times. January 16, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ^ Randall, Margaret (1994). Sandino's Daughters Revisited: Feminism in Nicaragua. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-0813520254.
- ^ "Sexism". Oxford English Dictionary Vol. 15 (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. 1989. p. 112.
- ^ tekanji (October 19, 2007). "Feminism Friday: The origins of the word "sexism"". Archived from the original on June 29, 2020. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
- ^ "Associates | The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press". www.wifp.org. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ Wulf, Steve (March 23, 2015). "Supersisters: Original Roster". Espn.go.com. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
