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I really enjoyed reading this because I think it is important to note that a woman can be just as successful as a man when it comes to her writing ability. I was very shocked that Murray took the risk to write as a man during this time period, and did not recieve scrutiny for it. Instead, it ended up a best seller. I think another point that needs to be mentioned is that gender roles seem to be blurred in this reading. A woman writing as a man does not fit into either "typical" gender role during the time period. --Catherine K. | I really enjoyed reading this because I think it is important to note that a woman can be just as successful as a man when it comes to her writing ability. I was very shocked that Murray took the risk to write as a man during this time period, and did not recieve scrutiny for it. Instead, it ended up a best seller. I think another point that needs to be mentioned is that gender roles seem to be blurred in this reading. A woman writing as a man does not fit into either "typical" gender role during the time period. --Catherine K. | ||
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| + | This is a teeny-tiny detail, but it really bothered me - when she's talking about how women should be educated because they educate their children (bottom of the second page), she says the matron educates her "daughter," but also "that mind which is to inform the future man." I don't really know how to interpret this - men are identified with their minds and women aren't? Daughters are just daughters, but sons aren't sons, they're "future men"? It seemed like such messy phrasing, I want to know what it was supposed to be getting at. -- Katie C. | ||
== SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, 1794 == | == SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, 1794 == | ||
