A sex devoid of logic?
Jean Webster
Out of curiosity and my hermeneutic of suspicion, I ran a search for the word "sex" through Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs and came up with one instance:
You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic.The word "sex" seems to mean "gender" here, but the sentence offers a witty reversal of gender stereotypes - and this back in 1912!
I wonder what the results would be of a search through Dear Enemy . . .
Labels: Literary Criticism
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:35 AM
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2 Comments:
I didn't know there was a distinction between sex and gender until I was in graduate school.
I took the word in this context not to mean making love, but I don't really know what the words "sex" and "gender" meant in 1912.
Jeffery Hodges
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