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Hi Barbara and Group,
I have ever since I was a little girl been utterly obsessed with what life was like for other people at other times. I wonder what their thought lives were like and what their world views were. I suppose the mere fact that I have the luxury to contemplate such things is in indication of where we are in history that our thoughts don't center around survival.
I don't know if I could narrow my interests down to a particular time or place. I do think a lot about what life has been like historically for women. I am intrigued by how intelligent women who lived in repressive societies coped with restrictions on their intellectual lives. I liked the book The French Lieutenant's Woman. It brought to my awareness how much women throughout history have struggled, just like the heroine of the book. I also enjoyed the story Yentl. The story really moved me. I cried at how she longed for knowledge and wasn't allowed to exercise her intellectual gifts openly.
I read excerpts of letters of women from the nineteenth century in a history class I took and they haunt me still. The letters of women who were moving West with their husbands and families who wrote of their loneliness and the drudgery of their lives. The letters of antebellum Southern women voicing their fears of childbirth and the burdens of rearing large families. I have so much respect for women and what they have persevered throughout history.
I suppose what I really would like to do is go back and give a hug to all the nameless women throughout history whose lives were full of challenges I can't even imagine. I know it sounds a little silly, but I have so much admiration for them, I really would like to let them know that I honor them for what they have survived and accomplished.
Thanks for the topic. I didn't realize I'd feel so strongly about it as I do. I'd like to hear what others think about it too.
Phyllis
----- Original Message -----From: encself@...Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 2:34 PMSubject: Re: [encself] Digest Number 113Dear Group, Again, I am writing to you without responses. It would be so helpful to me if you would share with me what you would like to get out of the e-group.
I am delighted to share excerpts from my books, answer questions, give feedback, just chat-but I need your help. Please join me!
I just went to Williamsburg, Virginia. Have any of you been there? I was so impressed with how they made history come alive. In essence they have created the positive memory world that I teach about. They teach through a positive lense a complicated period of time in a way that you can really get into it and 'be' there.
One of my fantasies would be to live in another time for a week or so-like a Williamsburg or ancient Greece. Would you like to also? Hoping to hear from you.
Take care,
Barbara
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