Femenist reading of IV

[Mark Kohut]

I think Robin, as often, has spoken 'right on' again re IV.....yes, Pussy Eater's Special--her pleasure first/most---and Russ Meyer, hard to jibe but.......cousins, not under, but on the skin.......

--- On Thu, 2/18/10, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Femenist reading of IV
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010, 10:47 PM
> Have to say i more or less agree with
> "He Who Would Be Alice."
> 
> "Inherent Vice" is just overloaded with feminist
> markers—Ida Lupino and the "Pussy Eater's Special" among
> others—little subplots that actively address feminist
> themes. Of course there is a fair bit of Russ Meyer in the
> mix in Vineland and to a lesser but similar extent, in IV.
> It's a little hard to get these two particular conceptual
> frameworks to jibe together in a single mind, but there you
> are.
> 
> Not that I'm an Anti-Semenist, mind you.
> 
> Next up: Feminist readings of R. Crumb . . .
> 
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:29 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
> 
> > Well, you have to dive a little deeper into that muff.
> This stuff
> > ain't floating on the surface.
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:21 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> more like a Semenist reading in my book
> >> 
> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, alice wellintown
> >> <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Perhaps nothing Pynchon has written to
> date  . . .
> 
> >> http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/61/61womeninprison.html
>