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Would we like a fiction Book Club?

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Unrulysun · 15/02/2011 13:00

So that we could do some feminist analysis of fiction I mean? I was thinking maybe some classics but possibly we all know that Rochester has to be emasculated before Jane blah blah and we'd prefer to do others?

Would anyone be up for it? Would it work? What would we read? Other questions I haven't thought of?

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maresedotes · 10/03/2011 13:33

Unrulysun, haven't been onto the chat thread but will search now. Have ordered the book on Amazon!

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FlamingoBingo · 09/03/2011 22:02

Has anyone suggested The Red Tent yet?

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Unrulysun · 09/03/2011 21:59

Hi SaF it was on this thread albeit a long while back. It's by Angela Carter. It's a book of short stories loosely inspired by fairy tales and The Bloody Chamber is the first story and is basically Bluebeard.

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Unrulysun · 09/03/2011 21:02

Maresedotes I think a lot of us mothers of daughters feel the same way :)

Have you been onto the chat thread?

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maresedotes · 09/03/2011 18:54

I've missed out this time but will attempt to read The Bloody Chamber. Do we have a month to read it?

I am finding recently that my inner feminism is wanting to come out. It was out in my 20s and then forgotten about. Over the last couple of months though things are starting to really piss me off and now that I have two daughters I don't want them (or me) to feel that they have to put up with crap.

Oh god, that felt good.

Blackduck · 09/03/2011 18:40

Oh fab...going to dig my copy out and start reading....
Lol at being very cross!!

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Unrulysun · 09/03/2011 18:06

The next book is The Bloody Chamber.

I have killed the other thread by being rude about both Charlotte Bronte and Lucy Snowe.

If she ends up with Mr Locks-You-In-The-Attic I'm going to be very cross with her.

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Blackduck · 09/03/2011 08:43

28 Sakura ;)

sakura · 09/03/2011 01:03

i'm on chapter XXVIII whatever the heck that is!

Don't mind postponing

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Unrulysun · 08/03/2011 18:55

I came here to confess to not having finished. I apparently forgot that I have a child.

I think we should postpone? I think it's more likely to be a success if we're all through it. What do we think? And if we vote to postpone then just by a week or so or postpone til next month?

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TeiTetua · 08/03/2011 13:40

I should have said last night's reading featured the word "thereanent". I called the dp over to share that one.

TeiTetua · 08/03/2011 13:09

There's a coincidence--I'm also on chapter 24, or XXIV as Ms Bronte would have it (Paulina has just reappeared). And reader, there are XLI chapters. But I am enjoying it. Definitely worth the time.

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sakura · 06/03/2011 12:33

I don't think you're far wrong there SaF.

I once saw a thread on here where someone's health visitor told her that she ought to be thinking about sex now that her baby was 3 weeks old. Classic "handmaiden of the patriarchy" behaviour.

What saddens me is that in cases where a father abuses the mother in the nuclear family unit, the children will identify with the abuser in most cases. I just find that so sad.

What about the bit when the boy asked the driver to take him somewhere then was a bit baffled that the man hadn't "heard" him. Children are completely ignored aren't they. They're not treated as rational, sentient beings. And then we wonder why they go off the rails when they hit puberty.

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sakura · 06/03/2011 02:13

yes, and the way the child intuitively knew that the only thing his mother needed to feel better was to be reunited with him, although she may not have realised it herself. But the psychologists and drug-pushers wouldn't leave her alone until they'd found the correct "dosage" for her, when what had in fact pushed her over the edge was the 'vultures' taking photos of her child. It wasn't irrational, was it, it was perfectly rational.
That interview with the press was brilliant, the way they were fixated on the breastfeeding rather than on what she'd been through as a person, which is exactly how the media is.

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