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Bollmann follows up Women Who Read Are Dangerous with a well-intentioned book that at times reinscribes the deleterious historical and literary practices that kept women out of the canon and away from careers as "serious" professional writers. For example, the chapter on medieval authors Christine de Pisan, Saint Hildegard of Bingen, and Madeleine de Scudéry is titled "The Ancestors of Women Who Write." Would Bollmann refer to their ma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More