My personal hall of shame includes the LA poster which crosses out ‘victim’ in the phrase ‘you are a victim’ and replaces it with ‘strong’. So inspirational! Sounds like a song by Mariah Carey.

Super interesting, thanks!!

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And how literary texts themselves (formally, thematically), and the material conditions of their circulation, are implicated in these questions.

ultimately the case studies show how thinking about the conventional gendering of work can make the conditions of contemporary labour (insecurity, predatory, care crisis) understandable in a new way.

The contributions tackle the subject from so many interesting directions - there are protest comics, early modern noblewomen’s libraries; there’s Buchi Emecheta, Adrienne Rich, Virginia Woolf; gossip and scraps.

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