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The Tenth Muse
by Catherine Chung
I almost gave up on The Tenth Muse because of the muse-y prologue. I'm glad I went back to it because it's perfectly compelling almost from the start, the reveals keep coming. It's a first-person narrative by a mathematician, Katherine, one who reached great heights despite the men who helped her along the way lol.
Katherine isn't involved in feminist movements, but she is a woman who is aware of the forces conspiring against her success.
Katherine isn't involved in feminist movements, but she is a woman who is aware of the forces conspiring against her success.
...when I stood in front of the hallowed buildings of Harvard grown over with ivy, I thought--What beautiful places men have built for each other with the intention of keeping women out..
In my mind I see Hypatia sculpted in marble: she was flesh and blood, mind and spirit. The book she wrote has been lost. None of her papers remain. But reports of what that mob did to her have endured.The Hypatia quotation resonates with me in the wake of an event at work that was Zoom bombed. The panelists, Black women, ended up having to process the violence that took place, rather than give their presentations. The event will always be remembered for the interruption, not for the content. Hypatia becomes an object of pity or even fetish, rather than the author of a work of brilliance.
...folktales were mostly told and passed along orally by women, but that the written versions have universally been set down and altered by men, that in the women's version the girl gets away by her wits, and in the men's version she's saved by a hero."That's from a PhD student named Henry working on fairy tales, and the Grimm brothers in particular.