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Lawrence, Norman Mailer and Henry Miller and showing them for the, you know, extraordinary misogynist and misogynist that they were.
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And in fact, their entire oeuvre depended on inbuilt misogyny.
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And this was such an incredibly confronting thing for me to read because I had admired
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each of these writers and to realise that my admiration was founded on hatred for my gender myself was something that radically changed me.
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Yeah, certainly.
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I mean, I then went out and pursued books by women and there were plenty of them.
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I mean, during the 70s, suddenly, you know, women, particularly American women, and I read my first Margaret Atwood book called Surfacing, which was just...
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a revelation to me.
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I can't remember the book at all, but I just remember the impact it had on me at the time.
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And I just thought, wow, here's somebody writing about me.
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You know, I just completely identified with that book.
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And, you know, there was Erica Jong with... Fear of Flying.
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Fear of Flying.
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Lisa Alter, Kinflix, Tilly Olsen, Silences, and just, you know, whole lots of books that just kept coming and coming and coming.
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And they were all...
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It was an exciting time to be around because we were getting the, if you like, the texts, you know, the Kate Millett's and the Germaine Greer's and Shulamith Firestone and all of the sort of books about feminism and feminist theory and books about society.
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But we were also getting all this fiction as women were discovering themselves, but also discovering ways to write about themselves in way and particularly to write about sex in
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In ways that they hadn't done before, or if they had, they'd been, you know, looked down upon and condemned.
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I mean, look at someone like Jean Rees, who I read avidly in the 60s.
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And, you know, she was kind of, you know, seen as a...