Wednesday's Women
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This books is based on Dr Michael O'Leary's doctoral thesis 'Social and Literary Constraints on Women Writers in New Zealand: 1945 to 1970'. This book clearly establishes the anti women biases of the male literary establishment in New Zealand during this period, showing how Allan Curnow’s Modernist school of thought echoed T.S. Eliot’s ‘ban on the personal’ and denigrated the Georgian school. The evidence is sufficient “to show a definite trend, and at times specific deliberate examples, of male indifference and at times malevolence directed towards female subjects, sensibilities and styles of writing as well as individual women writers themselves.” The case studies are fascinating and provoke an appetite for more. So some readers may well want to go to the thesis itself, which is on line, to read the detailed appendices with bibliographies of selected women authors, together with fascinating correspondence and reviews which flesh out the book even further. They also contain material on the reclamation of many of the women writers by second wave feminists and include an interesting interview with poet Heather McPherson from the Spiral publishing collective.
Dr O'Leary points out interesting differences between the treatment of women novelists of the time and women poets. The novelists were, in the main, ignored by the literary world, though many, such as Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Eden, and Dorothy Quentin, published successfully overseas. Meanwhile the poets, particularly Eileen Duggan, were not ignored, but instead treated “with a mixture of disdain and hostility”. Dr O'Leary puts his work in context, with discussion of the economic, social and historical context, including the impact of the Second World War. He covers the Rosie the Riveter effect which pushed women back to the home until increasing labour demand together with women’s education and desire to re-enter public life led to major change throughout society, including the literary world.
Michael O'Leary
Michael O'Leary was on the founding team of Bain Capital’s social impact fund. Previously, he invested in consumer, industrial, and technology companies through Bain Capital’s private equity fund. He has served as an economic policy adviser in the United States Senate and on two presidential campaigns. Michael studied philosophy at Harvard College and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives in New York.
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