Myriam Everard

feminist | onderzoekt de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse vrouwenbeweging (lange 19e eeuw) | en de geschiedenis van sekse/kunne/geslacht

[Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - MdNL @Letterkunde]

Ook in deze zomermaanden zit de DBNL niet stil. Deze maand vindt u in de DBNL onder andere nieuwe tijdschriftjaargangen van Lover (‘Literatuuroverzicht voor de vrouwenbeweging’): https://t.co/CfPnUHF8EX

[Myriam Everard @MyriamEverard]

In het Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam: een must-see tentoonstelling over het verzet van vrouwen tegen het mullah-regime in Iran en de genadeloze vervolging die zij blijven trotseren, in de contekst van de 150 jaar oude geschiedenis van de Iraanse vrouwenweging #InternationaleVrouwendag

[Femmes For Freedom @femmes4freedom]

Femmes for Freedom is vandaag 14 jaar 🥳🎂

14 jaar strijden we in windkracht 10 voor de vrijheid van meisjes en vrouwen. En we veranderen het systeem.

Onze mijlpalen:
👉 Nederland werd het eerste land ter wereld waar huwelijkse gevangenschap strafbaar is geworden.
👉 De dochterregeling werd aangenomen.
👉 En deze week: een actieplan tegen huwelijkse gevangenschap.

Onze acties:
👉 We hebben succesvol gestreden voor hulpverlening en vliegtickets voor slachtoffers van huwelijksdwang en achterlating.
👉 Onze campagnes haalden het nieuws in binnen- en buitenland.
👉 De overheid treft nu maatregelen op Schiphol om meisjesbesnijdenis te voorkomen.
👉 En financiële zelfbeschikking is inmiddels erkend binnen het rijksbeleid.

We vechten door voor nieuwe wetten: tegen huwelijkse uitbuiting, meisjesbesnijdenis, maagdenvliescontroles en -operaties, achterlating en economisch geweld — én voor meer maatregelen tegen meisjesbesnijdenis, inclusief een verbod op het goedpraten ervan, én voor de erkenning van polygamie als schadelijke praktijk.

En psst... Ook buiten Nederland timmeren we keihard aan de weg — omdat huwelijkse gevangenschap internationaal geagendeerd en erkend moet worden.

We willen jullie bedankten voor jullie steun 🙏
14 jaar FFF.
14 jaar strijd.
En we zijn nog lang niet klaar.

Wil je ons helpen? Ga naar https://t.co/Q0PWt6ZaJG

#femmesforfreedom #huwelijksegevangenschap #huwelijkseuitbuiting #huwelijkseachterlating #huwelijksdwang #meisjesbesnijdenis #vgv #maagdenvlieshersteloperatie #maagdenvliescontroles

[Janneke Budding @jannekebudding]

#Feministe van het eerste uur Wilhelmina #Drucker en de dienstbodenkwestie: https://t.co/uAKFNFhelQ
#geschiedenis
#vrouwen

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Until Woman of the Day palaeontologist Mary Anning born in 1799 in Lyme Regis came along and unearthed the complete skeleton of a plesiosaur when she was 24, there was little to challenge the Bible’s story of creation and the Flood.

Geology was a new theory. The first national geological survey in England and Wales was still twelve years in the future and Emma Darwin’s husband hadn’t even started thinking about his groundbreaking 1859 paper "On the Origin of Species". Yet there it was: the complete skeleton of a “sea dragon”, a long-necked marine reptile with four flippers.

It wasn’t Mary’s first find. She and her older brother Joe found the first complete Ichthyosaur (fish lizard) in 1810-1811 when she was twelve. She unearthed a second plesiosaur and in 1928, the first Pterodactylus, (flying dragon) outside Germany.

Mary didn’t set out to revolutionise the understanding of fossil life. Her family was poor, her childhood perilous. The Napoleonic Wars wreaked severe food shortages on the poor of this country and few children survived infancy. Mary and Joe were the only two of ten siblings who survived to adulthood. She also survived a freak accident at just 15 months old. The neighbour holding her was standing under an elm with two other women when they were all struck by lightning. All three women died. Passers-by rushed young Mary home and she was revived in a bath of hot water. She had always been a sickly child but after that, she seemed to thrive.

Her father died when she was eleven, leaving his widow and children dependent on Poor Relief, but the family had a sideline supplementing their income: collecting and selling fossils together, setting up a table of curiosities near the coach stop at a local inn. Mary and Joe’s mother sold their Ichthyosaur to a local landowner for £23, about £1600 in today’s money.

The cliffs at Lyme Regis were, and still are, rich in spectacular fossils from the seas of the Jurassic period, roughly 200 million years ago. They are also notoriously unstable and it’s a dangerous place to be caught between them and the rising tide but Mary had little choice. She had become the family breadwinner.

In October 1933, she escaped a landslide but her black-and-white terrier, Tray, who accompanied her everywhere, didn’t. Mary wrote to her friend, “Perhaps you will laugh when I say that the death of my old faithful dog has quite upset me, the cliff that fell upon him and killed him in a moment before my eyes, and close to my feet…it was but a moment between me and the same fate.”

Mary’s depth of knowledge belied her very limited education. Lady Harriet Sivester diary entry after visiting Mary in 1824 reads:

"The extraordinary thing in this young woman is that she has made herself so thoroughly acquainted with the science that the moment she finds any bones she knows to what tribe they belong. She fixes the bones on a frame with cement and then makes drawings and has them engraved…It is certainly a wonderful instance of divine favour - that this poor, ignorant girl should be so blessed, for by reading and application she has arrived to that degree of knowledge as to be in the habit of writing and talking with professors and other clever men on the subject, and they all acknowledge that she understands more of the science than anyone else in this kingdom."

And therein lies the rub.

Had Mary been a man, she would have been accorded full credit for her discoveries, her extensive knowledge and her scientific observations but that was taken from her by the “professors and other clever men” who airbrushed her name out of scientific papers. She knew. “The world has used me so unkindly, I fear it has made me suspicious of everyone.”

Had Mary been a man, she would have been admitted to the Geological Society of London - even the Royal Society - and participated fully in the scientific community but as a woman, she was excluded. The only time any of her scientific knowledge was published in her lifetime was when she challenged the editor of the Magazine of Natural History over one of its claims (she was right, by the way), and it included a snippet of her letter.

There was belated recognition. William Buckland gave her credit once in 1829 for her discovery of a Pterodactyl and when she was penniless, he persuaded the Association for the Advancement of Science to award her an annuity of £25 (£2700 in today’s money) for her contributions to the science of geology.

Mary died in 1847 of breast cancer, aged 47.

She had been given laudanum, an opiate, to manage the pain and endured gossip which dismissed her as a drunk but her lasting legacy is that by the time of her death, geology was firmly established as a scientific discipline, thanks in no small part to her achievements.

[Women's Committee NCRI @womenncri]

#WomenForce4Change, Free Iran 2025
International Conference marking #IWD2025
.@jaatteenmaki: Today we come together to honor the brave women of Iran. They have fought for freedom with great strength. For 46 years, these brave women have suffered under a harsh regime that denies them basic rights. Despite this, they have refused to be quiet, leading the fight against oppression and demanding change.
Iranian women face discrimination in many areas, including education, jobs, legal rights, and politics. They are not allowed to hold leadership positions and their testimony in court is valued less than a man’s. They inherit only half as much as men do, and even their rights as mothers are limited.

[Myriam Everard @MyriamEverard]

In 2025 is het 100 jaar geleden dat Wilhelmina Drucker overleed. En meteen al is ze een van de 14 kandidaten voor de verkiezing van Grootste Amsterdammer die Het Parool organiseert. Stemmen kan hier: https://t.co/zpKx9e9KX9 @ArinaNoel @marjetdouze @annettemevis @amdewildt

[ArtHerstory | artherstory.bsky.social @NoteArtHerstory]

@PP_Rubens Wed, Dec 11, The Solarium, NYC -
Adam Eaker discusses his new book, Gesina ter Borch. He’ll be joined by Wayne Franits, @SyracuseU & Nicole Cook, @mfaboston. This book is the first full-length study on the best-documented Dutch #woman, artist of the C17th.
https://t.co/RJzELgereQ

[UBLeiden @ubleiden]

Wist u dat Betje Wolff misschien wel modernste 🇳🇱 schrijver van de 18e eeuw was?
Ter ere van haar 220ste sterfdag (en van Aagje Deken), organiseren we met @letterkunde:

Symposium: Betje Wolff en haar erfenis.
🕑Do 12 Dec - 14.00-17.00 uur
📍@ubleiden
➡️https://t.co/2NrcNhWO9W

[Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens]

When Anthony van Dyck visited painter Sofonisba Anguissola in 1625, she was (she told him) 96 years old. He says she was still sharp as a tack! He drew her & then made this painting. Today was her day.

[IHR Women's History Seminar @IHRWomen]

Register: https://t.co/0l3JdSPMvp

@ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @ConorLucey70 @BeingKirst @ElizabethCBiggs @TheSAHGB

[Myriam Everard @MyriamEverard]

@Borisham @Stine__Jensen @omroephuman @Humanalliantie Inderdaad, uitstekend en urgent. Een indicatie voor de afwezigheid van humanisten en vrijdenkers in het debat is ook dat het Humanistisch Verbond en De Vrije Gedachte niet op twitter/X te vinden zijn.

[Plurielles 34 @Plurielles34]

Découvrez les playlists de la nouvelle chaîne YouTube de Plurielles 34!
Tous les lundis et vendredis, nous vous présentons une compositrice des XXe ou XXIe siècles vivant ou ayant vécu en France.
Aujourd’hui, Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944)
https://t.co/fa9s4YtHCz

[Rachel Hewitt @drrachelhewitt]

When I started In Her Nature, I kept being told that women didn’t have a long history of sport. I was told that we only started running, hiking & climbing in the 1970s.When I said I wanted to write about women 100 years earlier, even my agent & editor queried whether I’d find any

[Rachel Hewitt @drrachelhewitt]

But I have to stop somewhere & today is a good place. I hope you’ve enjoyed this thread! You can read more about these brilliant women & about how men try to drive women out of sport (& public life)- & how women fight back against these losses – in my book https://t.co/hcUWRVfoMl

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Pennsylvania Academy,1855, female students were not allowed a nude human model to improve anatomical drawing, so were given a cow #WomensArt

[De Mesdag Collectie @MesdagDenHaag]

Nieuwe tentoonstelling 🖼️ Dit najaar presenteert De Mesdag Collectie de eerste tentoonstelling van de Franse kunstenaar Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) in Nederland.
De tentoonstelling is te zien van 20 september 2024 t/m 19 januari 2025
🖼️ 'Portret van Rosa Bonheur', 1857

[Musée Rosa Bonheur @ChateauDeBy]

#LeSaviezVous ? L'ultime toile inachevée de #RosaBonheur : " Les chevaux sauvages fuyant l’incendie", va quitter @ChateauDeBy pour être exposée dès le 19 septembre au @MesdagDenHaag @CityOfTheHague.

[Music and the Holocaust @holocaust_music]

Nelly Mousset-Vos (born #OTD in 1906) was a Belgian opera singer and resistance fighter. In Ravensbruck she kept a diary which was adapted into a documentary, Nelly & Nadine, of her experiences there.
https://t.co/6MEA8JdtJ6

[WomensHistScot - follow us on Bluesky @WomensHistScot]

For our July blog, WHS Bursary winner @eleanor_19thC explores the lives and scientific contributions of two 19th-century botanically-minded women! Read it here https://t.co/926pHJ35V4