Posts tagged with "reading"



THE FUTURE IS FEMALE · 11. December 2020
Illustration: painting Amaryllis and Henrietta by Vanessa Bell, 1940
For thousands of years, men and women have been reading books mostly (mostly, mostly) written by men. What does it matter? you might ask. Ancient Greek philosophy, religious texts, love or war novels, science fiction, true or fictional contemporary stories are not all misogynous, are they? No, indeed, they are not... not all of them. But all those thoughts, those true or fictitious stories that are thought, imagined, written by men, would have been thought, imagined and written in a totally...