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173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)

The History of Literature

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The Patriarchy and the Attic

"I think that we as a human species are the same today as we were in 1892 when this story was written," she says. "We just happened to be an animal with a pre sophisticated way of thinking and being a big brain." She believes there has been a patriarchy in place we live in a patriarchal society for a really long time on the margin. The writer's brother said he would have put fireworks in her pillow, so I'm imagining those would have been, and they were her allies.

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