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Erica Jong
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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Erica Jong is highlighting how society often values men's experiences, like war, over women's everyday lives, such as those in the home, considering the latter less significant. This leads to the unfair belief that the knowledge women have is not as important or respected as men's knowledge.
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