Femenist reading of IV

[alice wellintown]

> Mind you, everybody in Inherent Vice is compromised. T 'n A sez that IV is
> TRP's most feminist book and it may well be, but [using the sense of
> preterite as social strata and not getting out trousers in a bundle over the
> religious meanings of the whole Elect/Preterite schema] it is also the
> author's book most focused on society's rejects.

Yes. With tenderness. Today, only a nut or a reject would admit that
s/he is a radical feminist. Why is that?  IV is another lament for
what might have been if only ...the women's movement had survived.


Danielle Ann Crittenden (born April 20, 1963, Toronto, Canada), a
Canadian author and journalist. She is the daughter of Max Crittenden,
a former editor with the now-defunct Toronto Telegram, and her mother
is magazine writer Yvonne Crittenden. Her stepfather is journalist and
former Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington. She has been critical of
the feminist movement and is considered to be a social conservative.
Crittenden is the editor of The Women’s Quarterly magazine. She is
married to former George W. Bush special assistant and speechwriter
David Frum and resides in Washington DC.

Since May 2005, she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post

She is a regular contributor to the National Post newspaper.


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