Femenist reading of IV

[alice wellintown]

Or Father Country? Again, P laments the loss of what might have been.
More freedom. More equality. Crittenden implies that women are not
equal to men. That when females try to obtain what they need and what
they desire--freedom equality, they are working against nature or the
natural order of things. That males are, by nature, endowed with
rights that women are, by nature, not endowed with.

It's not women's history month yet, but it is Black History Month. A
poem for Ms. Crittenden. May she one day know the beautiful and
terrible thing. Douglass was feminist. He broke ranks with the
abolitionists and pushed to have females speak at meetings and
gatherings. He was also a major supporter of Irelad's Freedom
movement. All is changed, a terrible beauty is born! (Yeats)


Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden

When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more
than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians:
this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered. Oh, not with statues' rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone,
but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives
fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Nota Bene, "Alice":
>
>        '". . . Now for the not-so-good news. Danielle Crittenden, a
>        conservative commentator and founder of The Women's
>        Quarterly, announces early on in this provocative book that
>        many women are unhappy because ''pretending that we are the
>        same as men -- with similar needs and desires -- has only led
>        many of us to find out, brutally, how different we really are.''
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/31/reviews/990131.31glext.html
>
>        "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:35 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Can't get too much farther to the right than that, eh?
>
>> Since May 2005, she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post
>>
>> She is a regular contributor to the National Post newspaper.
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/crittenden-mothers.html
>
>