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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why OP is saying that things like feminism or Marxism are faddish.  These ideologies have been around for hundreds of years if not more … at what point do they stop being a fad?  Does OP also think that women wearing pants is a passing fad?  Or representative democracy?

I posted above about the podcast talking about the feminist and radical political messages in Canterbury tales.  These themes have been in literature forever.  And talking about them makes old stuff more relevant to readers of today.   I’m a huge Tolstoy fan and studied it in college — even then we talked about tolstory’s really complicated and troublesome attitudes towards women.  I don’t see how you can read Tolstoy or Austin  or Dickinson without talking about feminism or how you can read dickens or Shakespeare without talking about class politics.  
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But in today’s climate you wouldn’t read Shakespeare or Dickens or Tolstoy, because they’re just dead white men.  And you most likely wouldn’t read Austin or Dickinson because they’re dead white women.  [/quote]

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