Janet Todd
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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Violence, men have.
So women are going to have to use guile.
And if they don't, they will lose in the sexual game and therefore lose in the social game.
So I think that's there already.
I don't think anybody can quite legitimize it.
Well, I think it's... You can't be, I think, in the end, a female libertine.
As Helena says, what would I get out of sexual congress before marriage?
Well, a cradle full of mischief.
The double standard is absolute.
And the only people who came near to being female libertines are...
aristocratic women and I think Ben admires those but also knows that it's pretty difficult to be a libertine woman further down the social scale even in a wonderful work that's an anonymous work called Love Letters she has a woman who moves from being the virgin, the desirable virgin into being a free woman but in the end she's a sort of wandering whore
There isn't a position in society for the female liberty, I don't think.
I just wanted to come in on the idea of the ethical libertine because I agree with Ros on that very much and
One of the most extraordinary things about Ben is that she goes against religion.
And very, very few women of the time could set up for almost for atheism in the way that she does.
She writes poems where she talks about faith as feeble.
She says that Christianity is the last shift of routed argument.
She even writes a paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer in which she says, I haven't had enough daily bread, actually, and I'd like some more.
And as for trespasses, well, you should give in to them, good heavens.
Oscar Wilde foretold.
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