Je retrouve une foule d'articles traitant de la mort de la "Dame de fer", mais celui-ci aborde son héritage sous l'angle du féminisme. Intéressant... Pas sûr que Mme Thatcher aurait apprécié l'étiquette de "féministe" et pourtant...
"Feminism does not much like Margaret Thatcher. And by some well-publicized accounts, the feeling was mutual. “I hate feminism. It is poison,” she reportedly told adviser Paul Johnson. Margaret Thatcher didn’t believe in Women. She believed in Margaret Thatcher. Assisting the Sisterhood did not rank on her list of priorities. She wasn’t about rhetoric. She even reportedly tried to change a line in a speech telling a Moses figure to take his “pills,” not understanding that “tablets” and Moses was a joke.
If you want proof that there is no Women’s Bloc of voters, just look at Twitter’s conversation about Margaret Thatcher today.
But in a strange way, that was the biggest feminist triumph of all. A great deal of feminism is the insistence that you be taken on your own merits. Thatcher certainly was. It’s why she’s not on these lists. In a 2011 poll, she ranked low on likeability, as Lionel Shriver notes over at Slate, but topped the charts on capability. “Being powerful is like being a lady,” she famously said. “If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/04/08/margaret-thatcher-iron-lady-unusual-feminist-suspect/?hpid=z2
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