Personal authority

Growing Down | Clarissa's Blog

This paragraph is telling:

“I have read over 100 female Bildungsromane in the past 6 years and, starting in early XXth century, they are all like that. This tendency towards self-effacement and stunting one’s own growth becomes more and more pronounced with every victory of the women’s liberation movement. Simply put, a heroine of a 2013 Bildungsroman sacrifices her growth and stunts herself far more easily and willingly than a heroine of a 1913 Bildungsroman.”

As I have mentioned already far too many times, the status of Australian women seemed far lower to me after my migration in the 80s than the status of (white) women in Rhodesia. Technically they had more rights under the law, but they had no personal authority. Quite sad.