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theatrical and anthropologically charged gesture of lifting little Walter in the air, proclaiming him ‘ the Heir of Limmeridge ’. 38 Following a very common move in much feminist literature, Sontag is forced to transform her reading of the text into a proof of the progress made since by women; commenting on ‘the anomalies and contradictions of a dream’ used to describe the narrator’s discomfort in seeing Marian, she writes: ‘The contradiction in the order of sexual stereotypes may seem dreamlike to a well-adjusted inhabitant of an era in which
were identified in Chapter 3 as potential features in the Australian and Canadian political systems that could militate against the centralising effects of Westminster-inspired systems. These factors and their application across and within the various case studies are compared across the chapters in the following section. The existence of women’s policy machinery The theoretical feminist literature proposes that given the fusion of the executive and legislative function in Westminster systems, feminist activists may be most successful if they target the state from
Church in matters of sex. Lynn spoke of the importance of reading Jack Dominian’s book The Church and the Sexual Revolution (first published in 1967) to her own sense of ‘liberation’: ‘The theology of pleasure being part of God’s design and sexual intimacy being conducive to a lasting marriage … that was crucial.’ 78 Having completed a PhD in feminist literature herself, Lynn engaged
(“It is so real!” she exclaimed) having lived most of my life in England. It was from my childhood memories on writing about Pakistan.’ 33 Academics in the UK, for example, organized themselves into groups such as the Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective and LTP (Literature, Teaching, Politics) which published radical, co-authored books, articles and pamphlets. 34 In the process of setting up the ‘Moving Manchester’ project, we consulted 3970 Postcolonial Manchester:Layout 1 202 28/6/13 12:38 Page 202 Postcolonial Manchester with long-serving literature
Native literature on the one hand (Quehenberger-Dobbs 1996; Sergi 1992), whether or not we prioritise the oral tale implicit in both the wives’ stories and the impermanent marks; and to feminist literature on the other. These told tales are the binding agent of the newly created communitas – a reforged community. But secondly, there is a broader claim here for the fluidity of text itself; for the understanding of written narrative not as fixed but as equally part and parcel of the mutable nature of communication. This moment in Tales essentially grounds the nuances
deriving from socially imposed situations and conditions, and reading feminist literature drove her to perform Catalysis (1970–73). Iterations were conceived as extensions of previously unresolved interactions, such that she would, for example, enact a resolution of a dispute before an unknowing clerk at the Adrian Piper: the body after conceptualism post office counter or supermarket line. The goal of the performance was simultaneously to be in the state of a pedestrian shopper, rehearsing a scene from her recent past, and enacting an extension of that scene, while
future children. It is only after her husband's death that she reads on the heredity of vice and truly mourns her doomed husband and rails against women being raised in ignorance of such matters. 194 In such feminist literature, women are painted as society's sacrificial lambs to men's vice and secrecy. Early twentieth-century feminists pointed to the dangers of marital transmission of syphilis as yet another example of the cruelties of marriage and its dangers to national health. The dangers of