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Levka

#architects #history #kitchens #herstory

"Schütte-Lihotzky led a remarkably long and full life, dying a few days short of her 103rd birthday in 2000. But her name remains forever connected to a space she designed when only 29 years old: the Frankfurt Kitchen, the prototype of the modern fitted kitchen.

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The kitchen design was part of a wider effort to standardize housing and lighten the load of the working class. 'She didn’t just develop a kitchen,' says Austrian architect Renate Allmayer-Beck. 'It was a concept to make women’s lives easier by giving them a kitchen where they could manage more easily and have more time for themselves.'

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The Frankfurt Kitchen was efficiently laid out and compact, to save both on costs and the physical effort required to use it. Here, a woman could move from sink to stove without taking a single step. This quest for efficiency also led Schütte-Lihotzky to move the kitchen from a corner of the family room into its own space—a choice that baffled contemporary homemakers.

Designing the first built-in, prefabricated, and mass-produced kitchen at a time when none of this was standard practice was a mammoth logistical and technological undertaking.

While the Frankfurt Kitchen was marketed as a kitchen designed for women by a woman, Schütte-Lihotzky resented the implication that her gender automatically endowed her with secret domestic knowledge, writing in her memoir that 'it fed into the notions among the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie at the time that women essentially work in the home at the kitchen stove.' In fact, Schütte-Lihotzky had never run a household or even cooked before developing the kitchen, approaching it instead like any other architectural challenge. She consulted literature on rationalizing domestic labor, conducted time-motion studies systematically observing and measuring the time and physical movements involved in common tasks, and studied galley kitchens on trains."

atlasobscura.com/articles/marg

Atlas Obscura · Meet the Feminist Resistance Fighter Who Created the Modern KitchenBy Kaja Seruga
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Levka

#ErickaHuggins #ElaineBrown #fascism #herstory

"The panel Women Speak Out Against Fascism featured Ericka Huggins and Elaine Brown, two legendary figures in the Black liberation movement, in a powerful discussion about the rise of fascism, state repression, and the role of women in the fight for justice.

Both Huggins and Brown, former leaders in the Black Panther Party, drew from their deep histories of activism to analyze the political landscape, connecting past struggles against government oppression, racial injustice, and economic exploitation to contemporary movements resisting authoritarianism. They discussed the ways in which state violence, surveillance, and systemic racism have continued to evolve, particularly in the wake of increased policing, mass incarceration, and attacks on civil liberties.

A major theme of the panel was the role of women in revolutionary movements. Brown, the first and only woman to chair the Black Panther Party, spoke about the challenges of leadership in a male-dominated movement, her experiences organizing against state repression, and the necessity of political education. Huggins, an educator and human rights advocate, emphasized the power of healing, mindfulness, and community-building as tools for resistance, particularly for women and marginalized communities."

kpfa.org/area941/episode/women

KPFAWomen Speak Out Against Fascism featured Ericka Huggins and Elaine Brown | KPFAThe panel Women Speak Out Against Fascism featured Ericka Huggins and Elaine Brown, two legendary figures in the Black liberation movement, in a powerful discussion about the rise of fascism, state repression, and the role of women in the fight for justice. Both Huggins and Brown, former leaders in the Black Panther Party, drew from … Continued
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Levka

#Ireland #history #herstory

"A self-taught cook ahead of her time, Myrtle Allen bought the Ballymaloe Estate in Cork in 1948 and in 1964 converted its dining room into a now-iconic restaurant featuring the farm’s harvest. At the time, women in Ireland were constrained by a 'marriage bar' requiring public sector (and many private sector) employees to give up their jobs once wedded. Yet Allen was a visible leader of the country’s gastronomic revolution, and when she received her Michelin star in 1975—just two years after the marriage bar was disbanded—it represented not only a victory for Irish cuisine, but for Irish women everywhere."

saveur.com/culture/irish-food-

Saveur · 11 Astonishing Food Facts From Irish Culinary HistoryThese 11 astonishing Irish food facts are the key takeaways from a new game-changing book on the food of the Emerald Isle.
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d'archives et d'ailleurs
Des sources historiques sur des #femmes pendant les révolutions de 1789, 1830 (surtout) et 1848 !
A défaut d'avoir sous la main des photographies de documents originaux, une #datavisualisation du jeu de données en #opendata

Source : Archives nationales, jeu de données "Pensions et secours aux combattants et victimes des révolutions de 1789, 1830 et 1848" sur data.culture : https://data.culture.gouv.fr/explore/dataset/pensions-et-secours-aux-combattants-et-victimes-des-revolutions

#archives #1jour1archive #archivesnationales #journéeinternationalesdesdroitsdesfemmes #herstory #19esiècle #Révolutionfrançaise #TroisGlorieuses #Révolution1848 #womeninhistory #dataviz #sourceshistoriques
Visualisation des 175 dossiers de pensions ou secours concernant des femmes conservés aux Archives nationales, par année d'événement (révolution de 1789, de 1830 ou 1848)
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HypathieBlog

Olympe de Gouges - 1748-1793 - Femme de lettres et femme politique française, militante anti-esclavage et autrice de la Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne.

Guillotinée le 3 novembre 1793 à Paris
Les droits des femmes sont trop révolutionnaires pour les révolutions des hommes.

Olympe de gouges en portrait pop.
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Maria_H

@AnjaWeinberger
Danke für die Erinnerung an diese Frauen. In diesen Tagen, an denen wir voller Schrecken in die USA blicken, fällt mir eine berühmte Opernsängerin ein: Grace Bumbry, die 1961 in Bayreuth als Venus im "Tannhäuser" aufgetreten ist.
Im Booklet der CD steht dazu u.a.: "Angeblich 200 Protestbriefe mit rassistischen Auslassungen sollen damals bei den Festspielen eingegangen sein."

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KarinH (m'good what-ye-call't)

#History #Herstory #Ourstory

"The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787" Volumes 1 & 2 at Project Gutenberg. These books are mostly notes kept by James Madison during the constitutional convention.

gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45

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