HI, ladies!!
It is Tuesday, November 18, 2008, today, and now getting chilly and cloudy, looks like rain.
Continued from yesterday:
Crusade against marriage
Utopians Anna Wheeler& William Thompson---They analyzed that changing the laws to put the political and civil rights of women would not give women equal happiness with men, because unequal powers must produce unequal effects. They also suggested that the dual burden of domestic responsibility plus work outside the home still curtails women’s involvement in political activities.
Radical Richard Carlile--- He and his Zetetic followers began to reassess orthodox sexuality both in theory and in practice, which were not equated with licence or promiscuity.
Owenite Mrs. Frances Morrison---She complained of the foolish education women received, the heartless condemnation to prostitution, the wickedness of a dual code of sexual morality, and the cruelty of the means of redemption undertaken by the Church.
…It is rather difficult for me to correctly imagine those brave opponents against marriage system and other institution, but I’m interested in their constant efforts to improve women’s lives.
SO, see you next. Bye!
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Dear Cherry and friends,
Good evening. How are you?
I read the book, “feminizumu nyumon” (Introduction to feminism) by Aiko Ogoshi.
It took me hours and hours to finish reading this. I’m not accustomed to this style of Japanese. She uses difficult vocabulary. For instance, I encountered sandatsu (usurpation) many times. Although the title means introduction, the tone of writing is hard and political.
Each section explains who writes what, but it is difficult to understand what it means. The feminist literary critique is one of the topics discussed in the book. To understand what it really is, I guess we need to read original texts.
Poovey’s is a feminist literary critique.
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In Chapter Five, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man is analyzed. Its literary strategy “marked her final abandonment of Percy’s aesthetic ideals.” (p. 146) Like earlier novels, it “dramatizes the way that egotistical ambition threatens domestic harmony.” (p. 149)
The fictional counterpart of Byron and an idealized version of Percy Shelley appear. Percy was projected on two figures, which express Mary Shelley’s ambivalent feeling for Percy. On the one hand, he loved young Shelley, Mary Godwin. On the other hand, he seemed overtly kind to other women. “Grief is the one emotion about which Shelley feels no ambivalence, for its intensity is proof of her immortal love for her lost friends.” (p. 153) She didn’t trust her act of writing, either. For her, writing is indulgence and vanity. Shelley might have projected herself on Verney, a writer, in The Last Man.
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