• Dorothy Sayers On Women

Sayers won a scholarship in the year 1912 that allowed her to a join the Somerville College in Oxford. She studied medieval literature and modern languages at the college and passed out with first class honors in the year 1915. During that time, women were not meant to be awarded with degrees.

Dorothy Sayers On Women

DESCRIPTION Introduction by Mary McDermott Shideler One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be 'feminine.' Sayers did not devote a great deal of time to talking or writing about feminism, but she did explicitly address the issue of women's role in society in the two classic essays collected here. Central to Sayers's reflections is the conviction that both men and women are first of all human beings and must be regarded as essentially much more alike than different. We are to be true not so much to our sex as to our humanity. The proper role of both men and women, in her view, is to find the work for which they are suited and to do it. Though written several decades ago, these essays still offer in Sayers's piquant style a sensible and conciliatory approach to ongoing gender issues.

. Part of the book series (CF) Abstract Ostensibly, it may appear curious to place Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers alongside the hard-boiled American, feminist detective writer Sara Paretsky. But, like Christie and Sayers, Paretsky is concerned to challenge, albeit in a different context, the social and cultural configuration of feminine independence as an inverse mirror image of contemporaneously accepted norms of womanhood. Although Paretsky is known for revisioning the masculine, hard-boiled tradition of crime writing, her work looks back to British, feminist writers of the 1920s and 1930s, especially Virginia Woolf.