So she charts the tradition not only of African-American women writers, from Phillis Wheatley, an 18th-century poet, to the Nobel-prize-winning Toni Morrison, but also of white women who wrote on slavery.

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And instead of being appalled at the way these so called lady-writers were bashing other women, I found content that, if smutty, actually tackle some subjects women might do well to think more about: why do so many moms let their looks go after having kids?

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Indeed, the mid-19th-century literary marketplace was more dominated by women writers than any period before or since.

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The social irony of the writing is non-too-subtle but the point is that in the writers vision, matriarchy is merely patriarchy with women in the place of men.

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