Re: Today's blog re. women and confidence: I am reminded of an article by Dr. Eleanor Saunders at Wellesley College's Stone Center (for Women's Studies): 'Feeling Like A Fraud'. She discusses women's propensity for 'writing off' achievements. Interestingly, she does not view this as completely antithetical to society's best interests, instead she posits that perhaps an innate capacity not to take ourselves too seriously is protective against a tendency towards a narcissistic society. Nonetheless, Dr. Saunders suggests that self-deprecation is not the cure for either individual or personal narcissism; accurate self-concept is. Jane Lesley
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I was interested to read you discussing L'Engle's preoccupation with homosexuality. The New Yorker article on her gave me quite a different insight into her character. I'm pretty convinced that may have come about due to what I am guessing were her husband's affairs with men - I feel strongly he was a self-hating gay alcoholic gay man. He certainly did cheat on her and her children made it plain that her memoirs were fantasy and not reality.
Re: Today's blog re. women and confidence: I am reminded of an article by Dr. Eleanor Saunders at Wellesley College's Stone Center (for Women's Studies): 'Feeling Like A Fraud'. She discusses women's propensity for 'writing off' achievements. Interestingly, she does not view this as completely antithetical to society's best interests, instead she posits that perhaps an innate capacity not to take ourselves too seriously is protective against a tendency towards a narcissistic society. Nonetheless, Dr. Saunders suggests that self-deprecation is not the cure for either individual or personal narcissism; accurate self-concept is.
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I’m very excited to introduce myself as an author of a Romantic Novel Title: “As Maryam’s Tree Stood Witness” Author: Ali KasemGenre: RomancePublisher: Amazon.comISBN: 976-9948-35-760-5Synopsis: Salem is seven years old when his sister Maryam is murdered in his native Yemen. The honor killing comes after an innocent and joyful love blossom beneath a palm tree with a member of a hostile tribe. False rumors that Maryam is pregnant incite the killing of the sister whose smile brightened Salem’s life as she told him fairy tales each night. The violence continues, and when Salem grows to be a young man, his father urges him to flee so that he will not become the next to die. In England, he meets a fiery Irish beauty with whom he brings up a family as they struggle to reconcile their cultural and religious differences. Then their world is rocked. When crisis and betrayal threaten to destroy the life they’ve built, Salem sees terrifying echoes of his tragic past. The details are chillingly familiar as Salem must now face a new round of horrors. Is he fated to relive his history or this time can Salem somehow save the one he loves?
ReplyDeletewhich is already published on Amazon, Apple iBook, Barns&Noobels, and Kobo.I'm hereby requesting you to please read my novel and tell about your kind opinion.
I’d like to hear back from you.
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I was interested to read you discussing L'Engle's preoccupation with homosexuality. The New Yorker article on her gave me quite a different insight into her character. I'm pretty convinced that may have come about due to what I am guessing were her husband's affairs with men - I feel strongly he was a self-hating gay alcoholic gay man. He certainly did cheat on her and her children made it plain that her memoirs were fantasy and not reality.
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