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How far we have come! This book serves to remind us, very eloquently, that things we don't even give a thought to now would be unheard of for women of earlier times. It was written only 9 years after women got the vote, and within memory of the time when women not only couldn't own property, but were property. Women were thought not worthy of education, and if they had the audacity to write, they were forced to do so in secret; hard to do as they wouldn't have had a room of their own to do it in
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It was fascinating to read this alongside with White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - made me understand a lot more. Among other things how we ARE taking something away from them.
When one is used to be "teacher's pet", used to be the one who gets to choose first and leave what's not good for them for the rest to fight about, one loses something when one gets treated with the same respect and dignity and fairness with all the others.
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When one is used to be "teacher's pet", used to be the one who gets to choose first and leave what's not good for them for the rest to fight about, one loses something when one gets treated with the same respect and dignity and fairness with all the others.
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This was a timely read, even 90 years after it was written. Woolf's musings on "women and fiction" are vast, varied, and at times tentative. I am going to add this to my personal library so that I can study it further.
Recommended to: writers, feminists, history lovers, critical readers ...more
Recommended to: writers, feminists, history lovers, critical readers ...more
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