Just yesterday, flapping around the Web as you do, I tripped across
this article It'a about "anomie", and they define the term like this:
Anomie, which literally means “without law” in German and French, was defined by Durkheim to be a state of “normlessness.” ....in times of social change and upheaval, clear societal standards and expectations
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Theology is another field in which woman's notable contributions have been underrecognized as far back as Macrina of Nyssa or Beruria.
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Fair point. I stand corrected.
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That isn't accurate. First of all, Austen published as "A Lady" during her lifetime.
Second of all, there were many very successful women novelists of that era whom most people no longer read today, most of whom vastly outsold Austen at the time. Maria Edgeworth, Fanny Burney, and Ann Radcliffe are the three most famous (the last was parodied by Austen in Northanger Abbey), but there were many more.
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And they came in for abuse even from George Eliot! Yikes.
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I'm sad that many - most - of the women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries are lost today, if only because their unique perspectives were lost with them. But the point remains that large numbers of their male counterparts of the same era ARE still around and still read even if the novels they produced are considered turgid and unreadable in this day and age - but those novels are now called "classics" and taught in our schools. Few books written by the women of that historical period have even survived, let alone been granted "classic" status.
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