On 7/5/06 8:48 PM, "Edmund Hardy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I was just comparing what they both say about Elizabeth B - and again there
> are these points of parallel, but Greer is always implying a determinstic
> model of necessary aggression as survival, which is why, I guess, she feels
> it's fine to elide, to dismiss with silence, because that's what, in her
> view, male academics have done & do & must do
>
> no wonder Greer doesn't like Christine De Pizan - who suggests (in the Book
> of the City of Ladies) we read misogynist texts according to a rule of
> antiphrasis, as shining praise -
One assumes Greer _must_ have read de Pisan, but I can't remember reading
any comments about her - do you have any? De Pisan's technique is much more
rousing, I think...
Hi Martin - With you there; after all, the Romantic movement also produced
Mary Wollstonecraft. I have quotes somewhere to back up these perceptions I
parodied, but they were perceptions, and no more accurate than those
caricatures published in the contemporary papers that showed the early
bluestocking feminists as being of startling witchlike ugliness. People are
always more complicated than interested agendas might admit.
All best
A
Alison Croggon
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Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
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