Love is worth the risk
I outlined my passion for women’s education in my last post. Why did society not only overlook but actively oppose women’s education? For one thing, it was not uncommon for parents to fear that an excess of education ruined a girl’s chances of a good marriage. The church fretted about the decline of the family […]
In Dangerous Works Georgiana translates a famous epigram by a woman named Nossis of Locri. Nossis wrote epigrams— short poems, often with witty or satirical overtones and a clever ending. Ancient Greek commentators ranked her work very highly, and chose to include it in collections as early as the first century BC. The result is […]
Reprinted from my post to Becky Lower’s Blog on September 13, 2014: What is so dangerous about poetry? Nothing! But in 1816 a woman who aspired to scholarship faced a wall of prejudice. Objections ranged from “women can’t, their brains don’t work that way” to “women who overwork their minds cause their female parts to wither […]