Martha Fischer (sakana@stlnet.com)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 07:46:18 -0500
while i don't walk around thinking "I'M A FEMINIST!!!",
hammett's depiction of women is the main reason i don't like
his books much. apart from nora charles (who i believe is
based on lillian hellman, a woman he clearly adored and
respected, at least on some level), i find his women to be
tiresomely cookie-cutter. they seem to be either the product
of male dreams or boyish girl fridays.
martha sakana@stlnet.com
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca
[mailto:owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca]On
Behalf Of Victoria Esposito-Shea Sent: Monday, October 25,
1999 7:19 AM To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hammett & feminists &
postmodernism
Feminists hate Hammett?
:
: Oh, come on. In the real world, being a feminist and
liking Hammet
: are not mutually exclusive. Let's leave the conspiracy
theories for
: the self-obsessed, artificial, closed world of academia
and the
: paranoid alternative universe of talk radio call-in
shows.
:
: As a feminist myself, I see relatively little in
Hammett's work that
: really bothers me (especially given the time it was
written), and
: much that actually seems sympathetic to women (again,
especially
: given the time). Now Hammett's life is another story,
but then, this
: ain't People Magazine.
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