The only proviso we should make is that people with dreaming and poetical temperaments should not entangle themselves in engines, and that mechanically- minded persons should not issue booklets of bad verse. There may be people who would like a world that was all engineers or all poets-but most of us would like to have a certain number of each though here again, we should all differ about the desirable proportion of engineering to poetry. When we balance the poet against the engineer, we are faced with a fundamental difference of temperament-so that here our question is complicated by the enormous social problem whether poetry or engineering is. There might be exceptions on either side: it is largely a matter of heredity and education. It cannot be settled by loud slogans or hard- and- fast assertions like. I do not know that it is very easy to explain, without offence or risk of misunderstanding, exactly what I do mean, but I will try.
As a result I was, perhaps not unnaturally, invited to explain myself. In fact, I think I went so far as to say that, under present conditions, an aggressive feminism might do more harm than good. I replied-a little irritably, I am afraid-that I was not sure I wanted to. When I was asked to come and speak to you, your Secretary made the suggestion that she thought I must be interested in the feminist movement. Project MUSE - Are Women Human?: Address Given to a Women's Society, 1. Sayers was one of the first women to get a degree from Oxford. List of ebooks and manuels about Read story the missing clock by dorothy sayers.
What must a person believe to be a Christian? Read story the missing clock by dorothy sayers. Women's Studies Are women human?Īre Women Human?: Address Given to a Women's Society, 1938. Thousands of New & Used Items Eligible for Free Shipping. 1971: Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI: Essays: A. Editorial Are Women Human? The question "Are women human?" was asked by Dorothy Sayers in a speech to a women's society in 1938 (see Sayers. Sayers as a Feminist Reader of Dante's Beatrice. Naturally everybody “knows” that women are human.
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