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“My Inescapable Femininity”
Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 Sylvia Plath is one writer I never wanted to read – partly because she seemed to have a “cult” following. My reluctance had, however, another motive: I don’t like to visit the lives or the works of … Continue reading →
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Women Enemies and Women Friends
In Liaisons Dangereuses, the eighteenth-century epistolary novel of cynicism by Choderlos de Laclos, the plot turns around two aristocrats who co-conspire to seduce their unsuspecting victims. Their purpose is not so much to gratify sexual desire as to enjoy the … Continue reading →
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Introduction to Womanhood
Lately, I’ve been going through a medley of sources on Woman’s condition. Est-ce que vous ne plaignez pas le sort des femmes? asks a character in a play by Alfred de Musset way back in 1833. Do you not pity … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic feminism, achieving one’s life project, cultural norms, cultural norms and women, current feminism, current feminist theory, Dumped: Stories of Women Unfriending Women She Writes Press 2015, external resistance, fallback plans, feminism and literature, feminist problematic, fiction as the mirror of reality, fictional short stories, fictional stories, foundations of feminism, gender and power relations, Gender Trouble by Judith Butler, get in touch with your feelings, getting one’s bearings, idealization and real-life, identifying one’s life project, identifying one’s predominant desire, ideology and real women, inescapable duty, inner resistance, language and gender relations, le sort des femmes, Les Caprices de Marianne by Alfred de Musset, life-shaping preference, light on the path for women, living a sincere life, living one’s story, living with purpose, living without purpose, mapping the feminist problematic, men and women in contemporary culture, men and women in present culture, mother-daughter love, mother-daughter relations, narrative and objectivity, negotiating one’s desires, negotiating one’s preferences, nineteenth-century fiction, obscuring the feminist problematic, oppression and dominance, patriarchy, pay as you go, perfection and reality, pity for men, pity for women, Plan A, second wave feminism, shaping a human life, shaping one’s life, sharing purposful lives, sharing purposive lives, sharing stationary lives, Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers Dover 2014, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, stationary lives, status of men, sympathy earned, sympathy for women, terrain of resistances, testing one’s sincerity, the female condition, the male condition, the romantic emotion, the search for purpose, the story of one’s life, the test of real life, theoretical thinking about women, third wave feminism, unbiased narrator, victimized women, woman’s condition, woman’s lot, womanhood, women and ideology, women and power relations, women and psychological theories, women dumped by women, women helping women, women misleading women, women supporting women, women unfriending women, women writers, women’s passivity, World of Desire
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