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Published: June 11, 2019, 5 a.m.

Today on The Literary Life, Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins discuss Dorothy L. Sayers\u2019 essay\xa0\u201cAre Women Human?\u201c\xa0They explore the ideas that Sayers wrestles with in the essay, including: the Victorian view of women, the significance of the industrial revolution, the human need for meaningful occupation, and the early feminist movement and women\u2019s suffrage.

Angelina and Cindy also discuss the history of women\u2019s work inside and outside of the home and how they have been impacted by industry and our production-consumption culture. They take a fascinating look at the effects of the Enlightenment on women in the modern western world, as well as the problem of over-generalization and categorizing people according to classes. Finally, Cindy and Angelina highlight the importance of asking yourself the question: \u201cWho am I supposed to be as a mother and a woman?\u201d

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Villon

by Siegfried Sassoon

They threw me from the gates: my matted hair\xa0
Was dank with dungeon wetness; my spent frame\xa0
O\u2019erlaid with marish agues: everywhere\xa0
Tortured by leaping pangs of frost and flame,\xa0
So hideous was I that even Lazarus there
In noisome rags arrayed and leprous shame,\xa0
Beside me set had seemed full sweet and fair,\xa0
And looked on me with loathing.\xa0

But one came\xa0
Who laid a cloak on me and brought me in\xa0
Tenderly to an hostel quiet and clean;
Used me with healing hands for all my needs.\xa0
The mortal stain of my reputed sin,\xa0
My state despised, and my defil\xe8d weeds,\xa0
He hath put by as though they had not been.

Book List:

New Seeds of Contemplation\xa0by Thomas Merton

Seeking God\xa0by Esther De Waal

Raids on the Unspeakable\xa0by Thomas Merton

Busman\u2019s Honeymoon\xa0by Dorothy Sayers

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