As Edith Crowe says in her great feminist essay on Tolkien, when she (and I) read it in 1965, it's not as if there were lots of feminist books out there.
Heck, even getting Anne McCaffrey's "Weyr Search" when it was first published as short story (sometime in 1960s) was great then, given the lack of female protagonists.
That was then, this is now. There has been change, especially in number of women (and a few men) writing more complexly about gender (male and female characters).
I mean, I should not feel guilty that I do not know how to use a slide rule and skin a mule, damnit, RAH!
Not to mention the whole (me) not wanting to have babies thing.....
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Date: 2010-08-20 05:13 pm (UTC)As Edith Crowe says in her great feminist essay on Tolkien, when she (and I) read it in 1965, it's not as if there were lots of feminist books out there.
Heck, even getting Anne McCaffrey's "Weyr Search" when it was first published as short story (sometime in 1960s) was great then, given the lack of female protagonists.
That was then, this is now. There has been change, especially in number of women (and a few men) writing more complexly about gender (male and female characters).
I mean, I should not feel guilty that I do not know how to use a slide rule and skin a mule, damnit, RAH!
Not to mention the whole (me) not wanting to have babies thing.....