Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Tavelinck, by Holland's leading feminist and most popular novelist, is a long (738 pages), crowded, historical romance told against an 18th-Century background of the fight between the House of Orange and the Dutch democrats. Like many a present-day historical novel, this one is a tribute to the author's talents as a researcher rather than as a novelist; like her U. S. contemporaries, she lays history and romance in layers as neat as layer cake...
...together that anyone who uses that word in future is a ring-the-bell-and-run-away man, a mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises is "feminist." Last week, out of deference to her rhetoric, critics refrained from using it to describe her social essay, Three Guineas...
Twenty years ago, before the word "feminist" had begun to triten, Virginia Woolf considered that the proper study of mankind was sensitive, intelligent women with independent incomes. She kept to that belief till she had made herself the best-known woman novelist in England. Recently, however, world events have put even the sort of intelligent women she likes to write about in a dangerous spot; in Three Guineas she takes a stand on today's crop of social questions...
...conflict the most interesting part of her story, which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal, one feminist, one famous artist, one War victim, one monk. The third generation turns out a talented left-wing artist, an illegitimate-born Communist, an avowed Fascist. Despite this disturbing picture of British family history, Author Bentley takes a calm view of the future: If half of the preceding generation muddled through, reasons...
Among the intercollegiate debates will be encounters with Vassar and Princeton. The Vassar match, scheduled for March 25, has been planned for discussion of "Resolved: That Congress should pass the equal-rights amendment for women" with the collegiennes supporting the feminist position...