Finally found

Apr 04, 2008 23:19


I was mulling over that perennial plaint that gurlzz and wymynn write about Teh Lurrhve because they are either not interested in the Big Important Subjects of Life or because they are all about Warm Caring Nurturing Emotional Stuff and therefore love falls into their sphere of interest.

And I remembered a poem which I have finally tracked down, by ( Read more... )

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mamculuna April 4 2008, 22:38:53 UTC
And not just in poetry...

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going_not_gone April 4 2008, 23:11:06 UTC
It strikes me that for much of history, love & romance were the big important things for many women, because a woman's economic and social status, her safety and that of her children, was largely based on her marriage. Being loved was being successful in your career. Austen's focus on the topic is a prime example--her characters' future lives and happiness are to a great extent going to depend on who they marry, and many of her "spinster" characters lead very straitened lives.

Men think it's all about romance, but for a long time, it was all about survival. Men could afford to be romantic; a woman had to be at least somewhat practical about her marital choices. And mothers could be even more hardheaded when it came to their daughters, having been around long enough to see what happened when hormones overrode good sense.

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oursin April 5 2008, 11:37:14 UTC
Yes, cf Auden on how very disturbing Jane Austen is on 'the amorous effects of "brass"'.

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badgerbag April 5 2008, 01:00:43 UTC
Fascinating, Captain!

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in spite of angeyja April 5 2008, 02:49:34 UTC
(smiles) There's so much you could write to all to this.. I don't see that locally, or hear it in text, more the reaching. It's good. Promising.

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