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Quodlibet: Or, the Pleasures of Engagement
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA email: rdupless@temple.edu
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F and W are beings more or less named Feminista and Womanne. They are sitting wherever it is comfy to imagine them, drinking whatever you’d be drinking. Quodlibet, meaning a musical medley, was, in Medieval times, a scholastic debate or disputation, but etymologically—and this is curious—it means "what pleases," or "what pleases you." The term "Quodlibet" thus implicates both genre and the desires of the participants for engagement with each other.
F. Feminist is what I am and what I have been for many a year, but what is that? I question or resist some notable, yet rigid political and cultural enactments of that position. That position which is not one.
W. Every day there is another news story about the current, contemporary oppression of women. And twice on Sundays. This could be the murder of a woman by her estranged partner—whether or not there was a restraining order. It