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I love how she thinks that other nuns making joking comments about “posh people” is like legitimate prejudice

Meanwhile she’s laughing out loud when she tells another nun her father is a painter and the other nun thinks she means a house painter rather than a painter of you know, paintings. And she seems to have no clue how that comes off

“Gender formed the most significant dividing line between early modern people” the authors are so real for this

At first I didn’t like how the authors refer to societies as very “gendered” rather than very “sexist” or “patriarchal” or “male supremacist.” Then I thought, well you can’t have gender without sexism. Sorry authors for doubting you, maybe you are just more feminist than me

I love this <3

“Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and, strangely, her daughter Mary Shelley - the author of Frankenstein - both died of puerperal fever after giving birth.”

No they did not? Mary Shelley died in her 50s? What a weird error. Tempted to DNF but I’m almost halfway through already