madwomen

[sistermagpie]

> Carol responds:
> 
> You're quoting a source here, right? Can you cite your source and
> provide a link for anyone who's interested?
> 
> "Restrictive gender categories" does sound like the sort of 
phrasing
> Gilbert and Gubar would use, but as I'm not a feminist critic, I
> haven't incorporated their jargon into my vocabulary, and it's 
been at
> least fifteen years since I read the book.
> 
> Carol, who did say that the title, "The Madwoman in the Attic," 
refers
> specifically to the mad wife of Mr. Rochester in "Jane Eyre" and 
did
> refer to her as Bertha in another post

Magpie:
OT (but that's the point of this group) my advisor in college 
referenced this book all the time, and I believe it was she that 
created our English Department Tee-shirts (for English majors). I 
still have mine. The back says Smith College English Department and 
the front says FREE BERTHA ROCHESTER

-m (who always loved Bertha)