Down Among the Women

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The novel also follows the lives of Scarlet’s friends: Sylvia, a born victim; respectable Jocelyn, hopelessly trapped in her dull, bourgeois existence; Audrey, who finally breaks out of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant, and doomed. Samtliga påverkade av ett samhälle där kvinnans roll var starkt begränsad och förväntningarna var tydliga. The novels Down Among the Women (1971), Female Friends (1974), and Remember Me (1976) focus on various women’s reactions to male-and-female relationships. Questo perché il romanzo si presenta come un ritratto ironico della società inglese degli anni '50 del secolo scorso, con focus sul genere femminile; ti inganna, facendoti approdare a cuor leggero alle tragedie che attendono queste donne che (quando lo realizzi, è straziante) non sono neanche per un attimo le reali proprietarie delle loro vite. Ribellarsi allo 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘰 che dona loro il ruolo non tanto di sesso debole, quanto di sesso accessorio, funzionale a quello maschile, sembra loro inevitabile, nel corso della vicenda; eppure, non per tutte vi è un lieto fine a seguito di ciò.

Brossura paperbacks con copertina morbida plastificata, segnata da appesantimento dei toni, leggermente ripiegate le punte, buono lo stato generale. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Follow Wanda, the tough 30s radical, her daughter Scarlet, unmarried, pregnant and frightened, and Scarlet's friends -- born victims, snobs, obsessive lovers -- in their absurd, nightmarish, often hilariously awful liaisons. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.Scarlet, starts as a sort of protagonist but the story, and the characters, soon become multi-faceted and Scarlet is the least of all concerns. Fogli ben conservati, saldi e privi di sgualciture da lettura, tonalità ossidate vintage, tagli bruniti dalla luce. Already we have a fairly complex picture emerging, but this is before we have even introduced the other characters in this multi-faceted book. I have little patience for self-consciously ‘quippy’ dialogue at the best of times, and this book is a great example of a text where I kept wishing the author would silence her characters now and again and put more of the onus on the narrator’s voice, which is both a stronger and more subtle instrument.

As a feminist, I am aware that many women in our Western society are still victims but, apart from trying to work their way out of their misery by latching onto a male as support, they don't stir themselves to make life better. The first people (women) we are introduced to are Wanda, aged sixty-four, and her daughter, Scarlet. Rebelling against the 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘰 that gives them the role not so much of the 'weaker sex', as of the 'accessory sex', functional to the male one, seems inevitable in the course of the story- yet, not all of them have a happy ending after trying. Yet here we all are by accident of birth, sprouted breasts and bellies, as cyclical of nature as our timekeeper the moon - and down here among the women we have no option but to stay.There’s Helen, who begins as a model working with artists known only as X and Y; an affair with X soon turns into a far more complicated sort of menage a trois. La rottura di catene come quelle imposte dalla disparità di genere è un processo lungo più di una vita. Eighteen-year-old unmarried mother Scarlet, a lost child recovering from her first abortion, looks at the world with her friends and begins to see the truth. Gradually the plot moves away from Scarlet and through these lives and others, spiralling outwards until certain parallels emerge between all these lives: the sense of male-female relationships as a series of inevitable and painful compromises, both romantic and financial, and the ever-present twin threats of violence and poverty which keep women in their place.

Scarlet, on the other hand, simply wants to have a nice time in life -- hence her adoption of a constant stream of casual male partners -- but she’s starved for true affection at home. We’re introduced to this circle of other women in an initial meeting at Scarlet’s bedside, and we follow them over the course of many years as they have affairs, marry, divorce, and sometimes die. Hovering about are Scarlet's friends and protegÈes, all of whom exist only in relation to the men whose beds they grace, covet or leave. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. A queste donne non resta che cercare di sopravvivere; e poi guardare con speranza alle nuove generazioni, cresciute diversamente da come le madri avevano cresciuto loro, destinate a rompere con molti degli schemi che le avevano soffocate, una volta approdate nei tumultuosi anni '60.Weldon paints a truer and harsher image of friendship, womanhood and the flaws of the feminine ideal in this novel than what we expect from novels depicting this period (at least I did). This book, or any of her books, may not be agreeable to the palate of younger women, but for my generation who slogged through feminism in the 60's and 70's with little progress in some areas (equal pay for equal work for example) and have seen much of what we fought for overturned these days: the frustration with the male species and their need to dominate will ring true. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.