Books

[george_sand]

While I was away I started reading The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. The novel itself is pulling me along. It's largely concerned with a characterisation of a mode of female consciousness. I can't help but compare this version of womanhood with women I know or have known; some similar, some who would be irritated by the comparison. There's also

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[dfordoom]

What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture.

Now if only schools and teachers could be persuaded to be honest about that. The frightening thing is that in many cases they don't seem to be aware of it.