A series of profound cleavages run through the history of writing - the fault lines opened by the social division of labour. This paper examines the consequences in terms of gender, taking a sweeping view of the historical panorama of writing and a closer look at the trajectory of my own writing.
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Article (Published)
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No
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This is a paper originally given at a seminar on women's writing at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin in 1992. It was subsequently published in Graph.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
gender; feminism; division of labour; ideology; world view; autobiography; zeitgeist; social history; epistemology;