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Originally Posted by Catlady
I think the stories are extremely dismissive of women and girls, as I posted upthread. This is one of the reasons I dislked them.
Women who venture out of their homes do so at their peril. The one woman who does something bold and heroic--Lavinia--gets no credit for it; the boys are annoyed by what she did.
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Well, I think that’s how it was - and in some places, it still is. At the same time, there was Great Grandma, up on the roof repairing the shingles. So I suspect that women were probably out and about, doing a lot more than Doug (or Bradbury as a boy) ever noticed.