“Let me give one simple illustration of the difference between the right and the wrong kind of feminism. One of my favorite parts comes from her discussion of women wearing “trousers.” While this isn’t controversial today, I think this passage illustrates her style, and humor, well: She gets a bit more snarky in the second essay, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human,” but her point remains the same. The same standards apply to men and women equally. However, if a woman desires to have a family and be a traditional housewife, that too should be regarded as good because that is what she is meant to do. If a woman is good at business, she should do it because that is what she was made to do. Sayers’s main point is primarily that men and women have more in common than not and that each should be allowed to find the role that suits them best.

Many of the issues women struggled with then apply to both men and women today. While they are somewhat dated, they remain quite relevant today. The essays were originally published with several others by Sayers in 1947. In fact, I would say this volume fulfills more our need (as readers) to have her say something than her need, or even desire, (as an author) to say anything about what it means to be a woman. Though groundbreaking as one of the first females to graduates from Oxford and well-known for her work as a writer of fiction and academia, Sayers did not have much to say about feminism. Instead I got a volume of barely 75 pages composed of two essays and an introduction so full of common sense that it hardly took any time to read at all. Sayers expecting a rather lengthy and involved discussion on feminism that I would need to re-read several times to fully grasp. I picked up Are Women Human? by Dorothy L. She answers questions I didn't even know I was asking. And in the process, I discovered I just needed her common sense, period. Chesterton's condescending tone towards women in What's Wrong with the World, I decided I needed a dose of Sayers's common sense to wash the taste of him from my mouth.

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