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We firmly believe that girls are fully able to compete with boys of the same age in the study of any of the subjects pursued in our schools and college, provided natural and proper methods of instruction are employed.... We wish, however, to put ourselves on record as believing firmly that the practice of novel reading is one of the greatest causes of uterine disease in young women.
John H. Kellogg, Ladies' Guide in Health and Disease, 1883.
So that's why my cycle is shot all to hell. Except, wait. I haven't been reading novels. I've been reading stuff like the above. And people writing about stuff like the above. And people writing about related stuff. Even when I read a fiction book as a treat for having accomplished all my study goals the weekend before comps, it was about a woman doctor. Twenty-first century woman doctor, but still.
I need to write a one-to-two page account of nineteenth-century American gender ideology. Again. I want to install some sort of cut&paste function for my brain.
John H. Kellogg, Ladies' Guide in Health and Disease, 1883.
So that's why my cycle is shot all to hell. Except, wait. I haven't been reading novels. I've been reading stuff like the above. And people writing about stuff like the above. And people writing about related stuff. Even when I read a fiction book as a treat for having accomplished all my study goals the weekend before comps, it was about a woman doctor. Twenty-first century woman doctor, but still.
I need to write a one-to-two page account of nineteenth-century American gender ideology. Again. I want to install some sort of cut&paste function for my brain.
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