I wasn't surprised that they don't like Alcott, she's too feminist (look at the attacks on the prevelant concept of feminity in "Eight Cousins' - which is very closely related to what the Prairie Muffins are advocating); but the swipe at LHotP is pretty much a give away of how essentially bourgeoise (and selfish) their concept of the woman's role is: it's not something that would even have been possible, never mind desirable, outside a very narrow period and a comparatively small group.
I haven't read LHotP for ages, but I don't remember it being 'humanist' (in the sense of atheist, which I assume is what they mean). They didn't go to church much, but that's because there wasn't one to go to within a day's journey, and I remember stuff about reading the Bible of a Sunday and reading church newspapers (six months out of date from 'back East'). Come to that, Alcott may be feminist but she's certainly very Christian. But any people who are capable of deforming perfectly elegantly expressed bits of theology into 'The chief end of the Prairie Muffin is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever' without noticing that this makes them sound like idiots are obviously illiterate anyway.
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Re: But looking at the stars...
Date: 2007-11-21 12:09 pm (UTC)I wasn't surprised that they don't like Alcott, she's too feminist (look at the attacks on the prevelant concept of feminity in "Eight Cousins' - which is very closely related to what the Prairie Muffins are advocating); but the swipe at LHotP is pretty much a give away of how essentially bourgeoise (and selfish) their concept of the woman's role is: it's not something that would even have been possible, never mind desirable, outside a very narrow period and a comparatively small group.
I haven't read LHotP for ages, but I don't remember it being 'humanist' (in the sense of atheist, which I assume is what they mean). They didn't go to church much, but that's because there wasn't one to go to within a day's journey, and I remember stuff about reading the Bible of a Sunday and reading church newspapers (six months out of date from 'back East'). Come to that, Alcott may be feminist but she's certainly very Christian. But any people who are capable of deforming perfectly elegantly expressed bits of theology into 'The chief end of the Prairie Muffin is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever' without noticing that this makes them sound like idiots are obviously illiterate anyway.