Elizabeth Fisher (journalist)

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Elizabeth Fisher (* 1924 - January 1, 1982 in Sag Harbor , New York ) was an American author and editor of the feminist literary magazine Aphra.

Life

Fisher attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and worked as a cultural columnist for The Rome American in Rome during the 1950s . She was also a co-founder of the Aphra literary magazine in 1969. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times , The Nation, and the New York Post . She taught at the Women's Writer's Center at Cazenovia College as a visiting professor and taught Women's Studies at New York University . She also worked as a translator for novels and dramas.

Fisher was married and had one child. She committed suicide at her studio in Sag Harbor on New Year's Day 1982.

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Fisher's best-known work is Women's Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society, in which she tells the story of human evolution from a feminist point of view. It begins with the question of why women are considered property that can be bartered or sold. Men, as a clear contrast, were the first to define themselves through this property. The ( natural) sciences have not been spared these social attributions either. Nature has often been defined as something to be conquered, owned, or mastered. Male sexuality was characterized not only as aggressive, but also as desirable. The woman was seen as "the first conquered territory", which is peacefully minded. Fisher criticizes these naturalizing ascriptions of the man as an aggressive conqueror who has a natural higher strength than the peaceful woman. It shows that there are other stories of the origins of humanity that were organized as matriarchy or egalitarianism . Relying on sociology , ethnology, and anthropology , Fisher argues that women were the first inventors in the hunter-gatherer phase . The development of agriculture and animal husbandry is said to be due to female innovation.

The seventh chapter of the book The Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution inspired the science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin to write her essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction , in which she understands the narration as a " carrier bag" in which various things and Gathering stories.

The publication was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aphra media types and editions: the feminist literary magazine. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Elizabeth Fisher . In: The New York Times . January 8, 1982, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed August 16, 2019]).
  3. ^ Fisher, Elizabeth: Woman's creation: sexual evolution and the shaping of society . 1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed. New York, ISBN 0-07-021105-1 , pp. 485 .
  4. ↑ a b Barbara J. Love: Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 . University of Illinois Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2 , pp. 150 ( google.de [accessed on August 16, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Fisher, Elizabeth: Woman's creation. Sexual evolution and the shaping of society . 1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed. New York, ISBN 0-07-021105-1 , pp. 3 .
  6. ^ Fisher, Elizabeth: Woman's creation: sexual evolution and the shaping of society . 1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed. New York, ISBN 0-07-021105-1 , pp. 47-55 .
  7. ↑ Le Guin, Ursula K .: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. Grove Atlantic, 2017, ISBN 978-0-8021-6566-4 ( worldcat.org [accessed August 16, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Fisher, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1982
Place of death Sag Harbor , New York