Blog post #2 – Week one of cool lady writers

Most of the stuff we read over this past week I’ve read in past high school women’s studies classes and even in a history course. I’m a bit biased to Wollstonecraft, since I’m a sucker for her daughter, Mary Shelly, goth and weirdo pioneer. Wollstonecraft also targets the rich and privileged, open to more education and willing to be treated better than middle class, like herself, or lower. I did enjoy rereading sections of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which I haven’t read since I was a younger child without the historical and intersectional perspective I’ve been given over the course of two years of college, twelve years of public school and teenage years defined by reading Rookie Magazine. The character of Eliza was always my favorite as a kid, but reading the dialogue now that the black characters speak in is quite troublesome. Granted it was a whole different era when Harriet Beacher Stowe wrote it, and while that is no excuse, it’s still something I had to keep in mind while reading with my 2020 mindset. It was a good rereading however, which I did enjoy. One of my favorite Youtube creators, a mortician, made an interesting video about Mary Shelly that I’ll attach below.