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Before he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writings.
by Rebecca Wilkin via @aeonmag
https://aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus
#OTD in 1892.
Ida B. Wells began publishing her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation, in 2020.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Han Kang has become the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, and the eighteenth woman to win the award. The 53-year-old has written poetry, books of essays and novels, including "The Vegetarian," which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016. In its citation, the Swedish Academy commended her for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Here's more from @npr.
#Books #Literature #NobelPrize #NobelPrizeInLiterature #HanKang @bookstodon
