#GAReads | Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era
Tilda Swinton. Photo credit: Manfred Werner - Tsui [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
“Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era”:
While the idea of eccentricity is nebulous, it is an important barometer of society and women’s place within it. “The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour and moral courage it contained,” wrote John Stuart Mill in 1859. If that is the case, then I think we should be incredibly excited by the loud and proud display of feminist vigour running through popular culture. From Janelle Monáe rocking very unsubtle vagina trousers in the music video for her song Pynk to Marina Abramović’s provocative performance art, and TV shows such as Killing Eve and Sally4Ever that revel in weird women, female eccentricity is having a moment.