I am quite excited about going back to work on the book. Last night I dreamed about it a lot, and woke up and had thoughts about it.
Last night and this morning I was reading bits of The Female Eunuch to prime the pump - it's interesting to see how much of the book is actually (like Kate Millett) literary criticism - it isn't a socialist feminist handbook - it isn't a "right answer" book. Is there/was there some sort of feminist handbook - a what's in/what's out? I doubt whether such a book would be desirable - anyway, I'm not meant to be writing a "correct" book that is based on someone else's work and ideas, this book is meant to be answering the question of feminists falling in love - is it right? Can one be a Romantic and a Feminist? And it is I, or rather my character who has to answer that question.
Last night and this morning I was reading bits of The Female Eunuch to prime the pump - it's interesting to see how much of the book is actually (like Kate Millett) literary criticism - it isn't a socialist feminist handbook - it isn't a "right answer" book. Is there/was there some sort of feminist handbook - a what's in/what's out? I doubt whether such a book would be desirable - anyway, I'm not meant to be writing a "correct" book that is based on someone else's work and ideas, this book is meant to be answering the question of feminists falling in love - is it right? Can one be a Romantic and a Feminist? And it is I, or rather my character who has to answer that question.
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