Hi, ladies!!
Summary; Questioning the ethic of marriage 2
Mrs. Margaret Oliohant---the novelist who claimed that things are discussed freely and easily which it would a few years ago have been a shame to mention, and concerned about those who regarded marriage as a tyranny.
Mona Caird---she accepted that not every woman was a dauntless heroin, yet suggested solutions; equal rights, economic independence, ending of the patriarchal system and establishment of real freedom in the home.
Cicely Hamilton---she thought marriage so humiliating that no woman at all should get married, and everyone should get a paid job.
Christable Pankhurst---she feared of venereal disease, and thought votes for women would end the problem.
…Their ideas are very intriguing, aren’t they?
So, have a good weekend. See you!
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Hi Cherry and ladies,
It was a clear and beautiful day today, though the air was quite chilly.
My late husband’s mother has been in hospitalized for many years and she is getting very weak last several days. She took a blood test yesterday and might need more examination for kidney, the doctor said. But her condition is not stable, so it is difficult to decide whether she can bear the examination or not, right now. She has been paralyzed on her left side for more than twenty years and been diagnosed diabetes. I visit her at the hospital once a week with a sister-in-law. I feel very sorry for her and sad. Peach, how is your mother-in-law?
Plum, about your bad news, I’m very sorry for your story about your husband’s relatives. It is incredible that they should have asked you and your husband such important matter over the phone. I can imagine how you felt and have been irritated.
About your good news, I remember the lady who practiced making her presentation at the last Talk Show and I’m very impressed by her great success this time. I agree with you to say that she is very energetic and powerful. I’m ashamed myself for my mental weakness.
I’m looking forward to seeing you tomorrow, my precious friends.
Reiko
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Sunday, December 7, 2008, today, and it’s been a mild and pleasant early winter day, hasn’t it?
We had a Victorian Studies tutorial at my place. Those who attended are:
Alice,
Cosmos,
Rose,
Yasuko san,
Cherry,
Gloriosa,
Sunflower and me.
Peach could not join us today since she got a touch of cold unfortunately. Azalea left this study group since she had no time for VS tutorial preparations, according to her statement. Thus, there are eight of us doing this course including myself, and I really and sincerely hope we could finish up this curriculum by creating a collection of Japanese essays on Victorian women who fought for the improvement of the social conditions of women in their times.
First we discussed how we were reading our textbooks, which we had never done before. Some kindly showed their notebooks in which miscellaneous pieces of information were neatly and orderly written. Actually I was very amazed and impressed by their efforts and achievements. Good for you!!!
Then, we started to express our impressions and opinions of Victorian marriages we had read about. It is truly hard to verbalize what we are thinking in our mind, isn’t it? Especially we read an English reference book and try to verbalize our thought in Japanese, and sometimes we cannot find appropriate Japanese words or expressions.
It is challenging, I am very well aware, but we will continue this mode of discussion next year.
It’s getting late, my precious friends. I’m getting ready for going to bed now. Night, night…
Hello, ladies.
Thank you for toda's Victorian Tutorial, the last one within the year. Through discussing opinions freely over the book we’ve read, I tremendously felt familiar and even closer to those middle-class women living in the 19 century.
It’s really interesting to be aware that they have the same kinds of problems and complaints in their marriages just we have in our current days. They tried to discover survival tactics to come to term with their challenging lives.
I especially like the conclusion of this book where the author said that relations between spouses will always be the most intimate and inaccessible of human affairs. Nobody knows the inside of someone else’s marriage. However, any women in the Victorian age live by doing the best they could.
It’s fun to keep studying Victorian women because there are a certain number of unexpected findings through exploring them. I really want to probe more deeply into those Victorian women who fought for the improvement of the social conditions those ages.
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