![]() ![]() Told from the perspective of Mira, a bright but deeply conventional woman who gradually learns to test and then finally reject the status quo she has been brought up with in small-town America, The Women’s Room blows apart accepted structures and forces readers to question whether what is is what has to be. ![]() Writing in the seventies, a few years after the crest of the second wave of feminism broke on western shores, she made the struggles of women for equal recognition and a voice in debate the lifeblood of her work. Marilyn French wouldn’t have needed such a reminder. ‘I think you need to think more carefully about the battles that have been fought about this issue,’ he said. I replied that it was shorthand, that I couldn’t be bothered with adding the cumbersome ‘or she’ every third sentence, that the Elizabethans used to use ‘he’ as a neuter form (I was a cocky so-and-so) and that, as a woman, I was aware I could get away with it. ‘Why do you always call the reader “he”?’ he asked. When I was at university, a supervisor picked me up on one of my essay writing habits. ![]()
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