Miller, like most iconoclasts, lived to spite society’s status quo. All good writers do, it’s in the dna. I haven’t encountered any who don’t.
The only other comment perhaps contrary to this piece is that you may have too narrow an idea of what feminists were or are. We read Miller, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck but also Collette and Anaïs Nin. We loved men, just refused to be anything other than equals. Given our parents generation that was taken as aggressive. I sense you think so too, which limits you to the borders of those male writers you cite.
Not lecturing just want to if I can put you in the dearly days of the movement. If you’re someone who loves to be patronized, that’s what it was like to be female in the 1960s. If your doctor was not supposed to prescribe birth control unless you were married, it was aces. If your boss or any male at your place of work could proposition you with impunity and you had to recourse, or could lose your job by saying no, it was delightful.
Miller, like most iconoclasts, lived to spite society’s status quo. All good writers do, it’s in the dna. I haven’t encountered any who don’t.
The only other comment perhaps contrary to this piece is that you may have too narrow an idea of what feminists were or are. We read Miller, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck but also Collette and Anaïs Nin. We loved men, just refused to be anything other than equals. Given our parents generation that was taken as aggressive. I sense you think so too, which limits you to the borders of those male writers you cite.
Have you read Didion's The Women's Movement? Fascinating essay.
I don’t recall but I’m noting this and will.
Not lecturing just want to if I can put you in the dearly days of the movement. If you’re someone who loves to be patronized, that’s what it was like to be female in the 1960s. If your doctor was not supposed to prescribe birth control unless you were married, it was aces. If your boss or any male at your place of work could proposition you with impunity and you had to recourse, or could lose your job by saying no, it was delightful.
Absolutely. Point taken.
Oh no, not at all. The first wave of feminism makes a lot of sense to me. And I know Miller and Nin had a fascinating, complex relationship.