Status Updates From The Discovery of Jeanne Bar...

(duas histórias) li o capítulo oito hoje que cita uma canção folclórica francesa, bem misógina onde /quando mulheres dizem não na verdade elas querem dizer sim/. “Jeanneton”, usado na canção, foi como um ícone no diário de um dos tripulantes para citar brevemente um caso de abuso contra Jeanne, ligação da autora, massa como a pesquisa é, por vezes, detalhada e complexa em vários assuntos.

An herb woman: one schooled in the largely oral tradition of the curative properties of plants. Herb women were for centuries the source of all raw materials to be prepared, mixed and sold by male medical practitioners, and as botany crystallized as a science in the 18th century, handful of male botanists did not think it beneath them to learn from these specialists.

Baret was not Commerson’s pupil, but his teacher.

Bougainville overlooked the allure of the idea she embodied; that one human being, irrespective of the hand dealt by fortune, can have as much curiosity about the world as another. And that, like race and class, gender should pose no barrier to satisfying that curiosity and discovering how far it may take you.