Why Windust & Maxine?

[Fiona Shnapple]

Terry Caesar's article, "MOtherhood and Post-Modernism" is worth
reading on this question.

Motherhood and Postmodernism
Author(s): Terry Caesar
Source: American Literary History, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 120-140


And here, a wonderful piece on The Girl.

http://sfonline.barnard.edu/gender-justice-and-neoliberal-transformations/the-girl-mergers-of-feminism-and-finance-in-neoliberal-times/

Pynchon is still re-working Orwell's Prole Woman with red arms (1984);
she sings and hangs clothes and is the ignorant fertility of
revolution. But her fecundity, as with Maxine's, though she produces
only boys, is a force that makes Brock Vond mad.
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