Na Cailleacha have not gone away. We hope you all had the best Christmas possible in the limited circumstances of December 2020. Covid 19 interrupted all our practices in unfortunate ways but since I last updated this blog we have been busy in the studio, and at our keyboards. Patricia interviewed me at home and Therry and I managed to do two socially distanced interviews with Gerda and Maria in their studios, for the documentary film. Helen spent a really stimulating day at Limerick Printmakers with Suzannah O’Reilly and promises to write an account of it for our next blog. We will be marking Nollag na mBan on January 6th with our selections of words and statements by women that we have found empowering over the years. Please look out for them and send us yours. We would also love to hear how you celebrate this important day. Women, Witches and words
There are probably as many words for witches as there are for women and all subject to sexist readings. The association of ageing with witchiness is a common one and is usually pejorative, concerned with appearance rather than substance. Where the word implies agency it is too readily associated with vengeful behaviour, jealousy, even downright evil, rather than the benign wisdoms and healing knowledge that it carried in early societies. I wonder, then, if anyone can throw light on how the noun ‘pregnancy’ has come to be associated with the verb ‘to fall’? I am attuned to the idea of ‘becoming’ or even ‘getting’ pregnant. ‘Becoming’ seems to me to be a neutral term in this context, stating a fact rather than a moral position; ‘getting’ is more ambiguous, you can get the measles (bad) or get lucky (good) and pregnancy could appropriately be discussed under both of those headings. But to ‘fall pregnant’ suggests an accident or a mistake at best, and a fall from grace at its more extreme position. I imagine someone using the term if pregnancy poses problems for them, but if a journalist uses it – I have noticed its use on the broadcast media quite a bit recently – is it intended as a critical judgment by the journalist on the person (female of course), and should children who result from such a fall, feel unwanted, unloved? I do wonder though, if this is an age thing? Am I correct in thinking that the notion of falling pregnant has only recently gained currency and was not widely used when those of us who are over seventy were young? For years feminists have argued against misogynist language, such as ‘miscarriage’ to mean the accidental, early termination of a woman’s pregnancy, as if the woman were somehow to blame for not having ‘carried’ the foetus properly, or ‘working women’ to denote women who work outside the home, while no one bothers to use the adjective for men who do the same. Those words have had a long shelf life already but wouldn’t it be good if we made sure the list doesn’t grow on our watch. Let’s hope 2021 will be a better year for us and for the planet than 2020.
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