tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post4765102766346408400..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: Schoolgirls and Nazis (but not quite what you might think): JOSEPHINE KAMM, Nettles to My Head (1939)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-37742210630306480302019-04-26T11:48:32.971-07:002019-04-26T11:48:32.971-07:00"I simply can't hear the word "Jewes..."I simply can't hear the word "Jewess" ... without cringing, but it does makes me wonder if other uses of the term in other books of the time might have been more benign than I have assumed?"<br /><br />Another century and another language, but I still feel the shock when I came across Sarah Bernhardt's remark about the actress Rachel (who was also Jewish): "Je suis une Juive, mais elle est un juif."Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-13218425554876005412019-04-26T09:01:04.641-07:002019-04-26T09:01:04.641-07:00Wonderful line: "'Miss Wheeler's goin...Wonderful line: "'Miss Wheeler's going to make an intelligent comment to the professor,' said Molly. They sidled up behind her to listen."<br /><br />The Library Card: my gosh, those dates! I have a purloined library copy of The Man in the Brown Suit (no, I didn't do it) with a card in the back dated May 1 -65. <br /><br />I especially like the misplaced library card, dating back to years before the book was published. It smacks of a Christie-esque clue, doesn't it? (I might borrow that, if I may.)<br /><br />Finally: Jewess. Oh lord. Possibly not anti-Semitic (though I wouldn't count on it), but definitely misogynistic. The age-old assumption that the male is The Norm and the female must be somehow qualified as The Other. It's everywhere, still.<br /><br />Oh dear. Did I just rant on FM? Yeah, well....<br /><br />This books sounds enticing. Susan Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17163152026039153248noreply@blogger.com