Ooh, shiny. Yes please, I would very much like to see your article (livredor [at] justemail [dot] net works).
I definitely wouldn't expect Wells to be the be-all and end-all of early 20th century feminism, (much less Wyndham who really seems to have been bizarrely unaware of the political reality around him). I find it interesting that he chose to be an ally at all, even if he was a dodgy one. And yeah, the whole discussion about (to put it in anachronistic terms) whether feminism gives women the right to choose to be submissive and subordinate, while worth bringing up, does seem a bit unsavoury coming from a male writer.
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Date: 2011-08-17 10:54 am (UTC)I definitely wouldn't expect Wells to be the be-all and end-all of early 20th century feminism, (much less Wyndham who really seems to have been bizarrely unaware of the political reality around him). I find it interesting that he chose to be an ally at all, even if he was a dodgy one. And yeah, the whole discussion about (to put it in anachronistic terms) whether feminism gives women the right to choose to be submissive and subordinate, while worth bringing up, does seem a bit unsavoury coming from a male writer.