Just a thousand words drafted of chapter two (Tasneem Project Scrapbook) so far. Chapter one’s draft was just short of ten thousand.
The Third Chapter is on the theme of Gender and Sexuality. At present, themes are also chapter titles.
This evening, I was just fishing around on Amazon UK for a title recommended by I Langalibalele in a comment he left on a previous post, when I noticed the book pictured on the left among the list of automatic recommendations — evidence that yours truly has purchased one or two ’feminist’ works from Amazon in his time. First published in 1915 and described as “a woman’s answer to H G Wells”, it tells the story of a community of women (discovered by three men) living deep in the Amazon rainforest, a society without class divisions, war, greed, lust or hatred.
Chapter two is busy burying me knee deep in Racism Studies at the moment, and I don’t expect it to be finished before the Spring – the deadline for the entire work has now been pushed forward to August 2010 at the earliest.
But I hope to open the third chapter at the same time as I first open the cover to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, insha Allah.
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