![]() ![]() Her problem with the term “feminism” has to do with the fact that she thinks it overemphasises the differences between the sexes instead of questioning them. But it was interesting to notice that the reasons she gives for not being a feminist are the very same reasons why I do call myself one. Sayers begins the first essay by rejecting the term “feminism” – this didn’t surprise me (Virginia Woolf did the same, after all), nor did it lessen my appreciation for what she had to say. These essays are still as relevant today as they were in 1938. Sadly, a lot of what she describes hasn’t really changed in over seven decades. But, as Sayers points out, in countless ways the world is still structured as if they weren’t. Naturally everybody “knows” that women are human. ![]() The question the title of this collection asks is and yet is not tongue-in-cheek. Are Women Human? collects two essays by Dorothy Sayers on gender and women’s roles in society: the first, self-titled, was an address given to a Women’s Society in 1938 the second, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human”, deals with women’s rights within the Catholic church.
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