Bittercon: Reading & Writing Through the Female Gaze
This panel at Windycon is moderated by our own mount_oreganoMen and women think and observe the world in different ways, and there is strong evidence that this is the result of hormone-driven differences in the architecture of the male and female brain. Given that throughout history, the majority of authors, and particularly the "canonical" authors who are
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She was commenting on the difficulty of reconstructing their lives.
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I am listening to an audio book version of "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. The first chapters are Janes point of view, when she was child and depended on adults who hated her. It's cruel, but the different situations she describes feel so real. I haven't read any other old novels with a female child as a protagonist, yet, except "Heidi" by Johanna Spiry. Both books seem to deal with the issue of adults who dismiss the feelings of little girls and who punish girls.
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