ID: 8890  -  Giovanna Covi  -  Trento Type: Text Format: Medium: Article Extent: 17 Identifier: Source: Title: We Women Are So Subtle Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Role: Name: Created: Date: Issued in/on: 1931-02 Language: English Rights: Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: The New Cosmopolitan Coverage: Place: Kingston, Jamaica Time: 1931 Description: Sarcastic statement about the discriminatory facts which make it impossible for women to perform like men in everyday life; after a call for the opportunity for women to be allowed the uninterrupted and unhurried working conditions granted to men, the tone ironically switches to interrogate whether women really want to pursue teh dull, dogged concentration displayed by men. Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Keywords: equal rights feminism Keywords: gender differences Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, equal rights feminism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, gender differences) Comment: Anticipates Olive Senior's argument that women work miracles by stating that at the root of all the mischief is the fact that women are always asked to be in fourteen places and do fourteen things at once, and indeed can do so, but at the price of not being asked to design cathedrals, write masterpieces and paint pictures that are bought for the nation. The article is much more complex in its treatment of gender differences when it concludes: We shall never equal men in concentration ... and anyway who wants to?