Offen

While I do not offer a 'correct' definition of feminism, my guiding principle is expressed in Offen's (2000: 20) suggestion that feminism is always 'a system of ideas or a movement for socio-political change based on a refusal of male privilege and women's subordination within any given society '.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

Ron Offen is one of those rare poets who reinvents the language of the human comedy in each of these poems.

ron offen | untitled | lost forever | uncle jack recollects « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

I’m happy to report that Ron Offen is one of the survivors of that acknowledged periods of Chicago’s literary history.

ron offen | 2 poems and more about… « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

Simon Offen, the catering manager, emailed her to say he disputed her version of events after he had "watched and listened with interest to the video recording of her table".

CCTV Britain Not a sheep 2009

(At one time, in the early days, if I rightly recall, Offen indeed tried his best to nurture everyone with a free copy — a free literary lunch.)

January « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Editor/publisher, Ron Offen, sets the acceptance bar quite high.

alice d’alessio | questions for henry « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

For more on the genesis of 'feminism' in Europe, see Offen (2000). back

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

But as Karen Offen (1988) notes, most European feminisms of the interwar period (French, German, Italian, Swedish, and Greek) had a 'relationalist' view of the sexes, that is, that sexes were distinguished by both biological and cultural traits, that there existed an essential difference between the natures of women and men.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

(At one time, in the early days, if I rightly recall, Offen indeed tried his best to nurture everyone with a free copy — a free literary lunch.)

ron offen | winternacht « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Born on July 6, 1907 in Chrzanów (Schidlow), Poland, to community employee Fischel Engel (1884 – 1956) and Shoshana, née Offen (1883 – 1975), Golda Malka (later Mascha) arrived in Germany at the beginning of World War I, when her family fled from the bloody pogroms in Galicia.

Mascha Kal��ko. 2009