Why Georgia O'Keeffe's soul resides in Santa Fe

leslie roman
acrylic on canvas
2000

 

 

"Whenever women continue to serve as boundary markers between different national, ethnic and religious collectivities, their emergence as full-fledged citizens will be jeopardized."

---Deniz Kandiyoti, "Identity and Its Discontents: Women and the Nation"

 

"As long as woman is excluded from the community, it is not really common."

---Mieke Bal, Lethal Love.

 

"Male subaltern and historian are....united in the common assumption that the procreative sex is a species apart, scarcely, if at all, to be considered a part of civil society."

---Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiogaphy."