![]() That’s what stands out to me in this reading: women exercise an equal capacity to injure and bruise. I could relate to young Elaine’s sense of being on the outside looking in. One thing that stood out to me as a young reader, which still resonates with me now, is the mysterious nature of girlhood. ![]() Something that’s arisen in Canadian media in recent years, when women here were reminded once again that feminism is not a single vision and is not necessarily synonymous with equality-it depends on the woman, it depends on the feminist.) ![]() (This is something that’s discussed in Lennie Goodings’ memoir about working at Virago Publishing and the important role that Atwood’s early fiction played in funding that feminist press. ![]() I was a teenager when I read Cat’s Eye for the first time I would have had no idea that Elaine’s childhood of lakes and insects was Peggy’s childhood too.Īs a young reader, I also wouldn’t have understood the connection between the criticisms levied by the fictional interviewer who’s covering grown-up Elaine’s art show-and seeking pullquotes to represent a “good feminist” artis-and the ongoing debates that Margaret Atwood has been cast in, by virtue of being a “celebrity feminist” from the 1980s onward. ![]() Rereading Cat’s Eye while rereading Rosemary Sullivan’s biography of Margaret Atwood emphasized the parallels between the narrator’s and author’s childhoods. ![]()
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