{"id":4351,"date":"2025-03-13T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2025-03-13T10:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T08:24:22","slug":"we-can-fight-with-the-mind-riding-woolf-and-stein-confront-fascist-fathering-14-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=4351","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe can fight with the mind\u201d: Riding, Woolf, and Stein Confront Fascist Fathering \u2014 14 mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>La professeure Jane Malcolm de l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al sera accueillie en visioconf\u00e9rence par l&rsquo;\u00e9quipe de recherche 19-21 de l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle le 14 mars 2025 de 15h \u00e0 17h. Sp\u00e9cialiste de litt\u00e9rature et de gender studies, nous trouverez ci-dessous la pr\u00e9sentation de son intervention. Pour vous connecter \u00e0 l&rsquo;appel vid\u00e9o : <a href=\"https:\/\/meet.google.com\/edb-bbzj-fjn\">https:\/\/meet.google.com\/edb-bbzj-fjn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1937, Laura Riding wrote, printed and mass-distributed an open letter arguing that women or \u201cinside people\u201d and their intellectual labor offered the only viable solution or counterpoint to the rise of fascism in Europe and the lived precarity it occasioned. The gendered thinking structure Riding elaborates in this letter represents a foundational (and ambivalent) feminist dialectic that we see repeated independently in the anti-war discourses of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein in this same era, in \u201cThoughts on Peace in an Air Raid\u201d (1940) and&nbsp;<em>Everybody\u2019s Autobiography<\/em>&nbsp;(1937), respectively. Despite their divergent feminisms and aesthetic priorities, and despite there being no personal relationship or exchange between the three by the late 1930s, much can be learned from reading Riding, Woolf, and Stein together through the phenomenon or coincidence of their shared diagnoses: that the world suffered from the effects of epidemic fathering, hyper-masculinity, and a banal recourse to unthinking violence and externalization. Riding, Woolf, and Stein each turn to alternative venues (the letter, the popular magazine, and the autobiography) to mount their critiques of the political sphere (and, implicitly, of modernist institutions), offering discrete but complementary versions of a gendered ontology of modern warfare, alongside a defense of private, intellectual life and the material advantages of \u00ab\u00a0tea-table thinking.\u00a0\u00bb<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio: <\/strong>Jane Malcolm is an Associate Professor at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. She is the co-editor of&nbsp;<em>A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertude Stein 1927-1930<\/em>&nbsp;(UNM Press) and a scholarly edition of Laura Riding&rsquo;s 1928 treatise,&nbsp;<em>Contemporaries and Snobs&nbsp;<\/em>(UAlabama Press), as well as essays and articles on the work of Muriel Rukeyser, Alice Notley, Yoko Ono, and Gail Scott, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La professeure Jane Malcolm de l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al sera accueillie en visioconf\u00e9rence par l&rsquo;\u00e9quipe de recherche 19-21 de l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle le 14 mars 2025 de 15h \u00e0 17h. Sp\u00e9cialiste de litt\u00e9rature et de gender studies, nous trouverez ci-dessous la pr\u00e9sentation de son intervention. Pour vous connecter \u00e0 l&rsquo;appel vid\u00e9o : https:\/\/meet.google.com\/edb-bbzj-fjn In 1937, Laura [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evenements-woolf"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}