Is it a feminist text at the time or do we start seeing the feminist messages (if any) later)?
Good question. Charlotte Bronte wanted women to have more opportunities, and the suffrage movement was underway and everything, so reading it in that light makes sense to me.
What I would love to do is compare the models of women between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea which has intersectionally all of the shop.
*nodnod* Absolutely! I brought up intersectionality in my seminar, actually - Charlotte was a bit of reactionary class-wise, so there's lots of interesting stuff to talk about.
Although I had to explain what 'intersectionality' is. I used this whole colour metaphor (if sexism is yellow and racism is blue, then black women face both yellow, blue and green) which may have come off as INCREDIBLY condescending but I couldn't think of anything better.
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Date: 2010-03-09 10:12 am (UTC)Good question. Charlotte Bronte wanted women to have more opportunities, and the suffrage movement was underway and everything, so reading it in that light makes sense to me.
What I would love to do is compare the models of women between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea which has intersectionally all of the shop.
*nodnod* Absolutely! I brought up intersectionality in my seminar, actually - Charlotte was a bit of reactionary class-wise, so there's lots of interesting stuff to talk about.
Although I had to explain what 'intersectionality' is. I used this whole colour metaphor (if sexism is yellow and racism is blue, then black women face both yellow, blue and green) which may have come off as INCREDIBLY condescending but I couldn't think of anything better.