Very strong point, Alison
& I'd agree, at least that Greer probably doesn't even know that Howe
(& others like her) even exist.
And I'd rather read Me EMily Dickinson any day...(not to mention The
Birth-Mark).
Doug
On 6-May-06, at 7:25 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> But it seems to me that Greer is implicitly addressing and critiquing a
> different kind of feminism to that Howe (in my reading at least) is
> invoking. I'd suggest Ruth Padel, Carol Ann Duffy etc as names to kick
> around here. In making that critique I'd suggest (sticking my neck out
> but
> it's my guess that is more or less what Greer is doing, given that
> "women
> have to...") she elides such practises as Howe's entirely. More, she is
> almost saying that there is no tradition in which they might exist,
> that
> women have (and have had) no choice but to objectify themselves in
> those
> masculinist terms. I think that's rubbish. And it depends on leaving
> significant women poets out of the argument in order to sustain it,
> from
> Chrstine de Pisan and Sor Juana de la Cruz on
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