Reading Amelia Bedelia as feminist commentary.

The Morning News http://bit.ly/2ID7gy2

The first Amelia Bedelia book was published in 1963, the same year as Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique”; the series’ interest in wordplay, literalism, and figurative language is of a piece with its interest in the repetitive, devalued, yet highly intimate quality of women’s work.

↩︎ The New Yorker

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