{"id":1735,"date":"2006-12-08T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2006-12-08T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T16:33:30","slug":"has-this-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Has this changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well maybe a little: you do get the odd article about &#8220;Men&#8221; these days.<br \/>\nIn a 1921 essay <a href = \"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_Macaulay\">Rose Macaulay<\/a> &#8220;hones in on the gendered politics of knowledge. By treating women as a topic (which men are not)&#8230; newspapers of the period assumed the more powerful subvject position of observer and disseminator of knowledge about women, who ware placed in the passive position of object-of-scrutiny. Macaulay&#8217;s essay invites this reading with a metaphor that signals the objectivification, even dehumanization, of women when treated as an object of commentary: &#8220;Women are regarded in some quarters rather as a curious and interesting kind of bettle, whose habits repay investigation.&#8221;<br \/>\n(From Patrick Collier, Modernism on Fleet Street, Ashgate, 2006, p.140) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well maybe a little: you do get the odd article about &#8220;Men&#8221; these days. In a 1921 essay Rose Macaulay &#8220;hones in on the gendered politics of knowledge. By treating women as a topic (which men are not)&#8230; newspapers of the period assumed the more powerful subvject position of observer and disseminator of knowledge about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}