tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post7669136016987854797..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Signs for Lost Children: Respectability is all in this an Untidy World... Mari HowardKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-40834806176847556502021-04-12T09:54:19.280+01:002021-04-12T09:54:19.280+01:00Just saw ths and hope you see my response,Peter. I...Just saw ths and hope you see my response,Peter. I found the story you tell here very interesting (and may buy and read the book!). We in the west forget or are unaware as a society that we, too, treated women as if they were a subgroup in these horrible ways. Thanks.Clare Weiner (Mari Howard)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03509159907199642490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-36798208055143909992021-03-22T14:46:36.564+00:002021-03-22T14:46:36.564+00:00Very interesting Mari. It reminded me of reading a...Very interesting Mari. It reminded me of reading an account by Azar Nafisi who was teaching literature to girls in Iran. She refers to the girls being forced to undergo virginity tests if they associated for any length of time any males outside the family circle. One of her students reads Daisy Miller, Henry James's novella about a woman who behaves unconventionally. Nafisi learns later that one of her students has secretly named her daughter Daisy and when she is asked why the student replies that if you give your child a name with a meaning she will become like her namesake. 'I want my daughter to become like I never was - like Daisy. You know, courageous.' Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003).Peter Leylandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07717370262319438102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-56585152765840840682021-03-22T14:23:39.049+00:002021-03-22T14:23:39.049+00:00Thank you, Wendy - it suddenly occurred to be the ...Thank you, Wendy - it suddenly occurred to be the obvious blogpost for this month!Clare Weiner (Mari Howard)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03509159907199642490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-50148183742580107302021-03-22T08:00:57.930+00:002021-03-22T08:00:57.930+00:00This was brilliant, Clare. What an insight. This was brilliant, Clare. What an insight. Wendy H. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04022089775887274043noreply@blogger.com