I have never forgotten a comment made by a friend at the first feminist meeting, held in Bloomington Indiana, in the spring of 1969: “Nothing travels faster than an idea whose time has come.” We were amazed and thrilled to discover how much we had in common with other women, and how the women's movement in its early stages gave us permission to express in public a variety of extreme emotions. All of us at that meeting were young, untenured faculty and graduate students, and suddenly—or at least so it seemed—we could speak out against authority. And sometimes authority listened. We quickly turned to writing, our natural medium, for we realized that our academic work had an immediate resonance with our political ambitions. How rare and special this moment was for those of us who worked on the literature of dead authors!

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多萝西娅还是简？早期女权主义批评的困境

我从未忘记一位朋友在 1969 年春天在印第安纳州布卢明顿举行的第一次女权主义会议上发表的评论：“没有什么比一个时机成熟的想法传播得更快了。” 我们惊讶地发现我们与其他女性有多少共同点，以及早期的女性运动如何允许我们在公共场合表达各种极端情绪。在那次会议上，我们所有人都是年轻的、未获得终身教职的教师和研究生，突然间——或者至少看起来如此——我们可以公开反对权威。有时权威会倾听。我们很快转向写作，我们的自然媒介，因为我们意识到我们的学术工作与我们的政治抱负直接产生了共鸣。对于我们这些研究死去作家文学的人来说，这一刻是多么难得和特别！