![]() ![]() Some feminist epistemologists would disagree with what the aforementioned assessment entails about the nature of knowledge. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle.” I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction “from the woman’s point of view.” To such demands, one can only say, “Go away and don’t be silly. Much of what Sayers says is anachronistic: Sayers’ famous 1938 address to a women’s society includes language that shocks millennials like myself and belies current epistemological trends relating to the embodied nature of knowledge. Instead, it contains Sayers’ (rather begrudging) reflections on the nature of womanhood and the relationship between women and their occupations. ‘Are Women Human?’, however, is not a lecture on writing, poetry, or classics. Sayers was a novelist, poet, and classicist she was not a philosopher or social theorist. To the younger among us in the academy, Dorothy Sayers’ ‘ Are Women Human?’ seems at times to have been written today and at others to be written on another planet. More information about Logia and additional articles are available here. This month’s Logia post is by Stephanie Nicole Nordby. Each month Blogos features an article created in partnership with the Logos Institute’s Logia initiative. ![]()
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