Blue ticket a novel6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() In recent years, writers such as Rebecca Solnit, Roxane Gay and Sheila Heti have produced varied works scrutinising how women move through the world. ![]() As the Belgian philosopher Luce Irigaray declared in 1984, “sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age” – and it has only become more pressing and less clear in the years since, as we continue to wrestle at the practical and political level with a raft of complex questions. In more recent decades, I sense, the focus has shifted onto women. Once, not so very long ago, it seemed that much of literature was preoccupied by a single central question: what did it mean to be a man? Was it manly deeds, a lion’s heart? Was man primarily a political animal, or was he engaged in a more primal struggle against nature? Sophie Mackintosh's Blue Ticket explores the question: 'should I have kids?'įrom the autumn 2020 edition of New Humanist.īlue Ticket (Hamish Hamilton) by Sophie Mackintosh ![]()
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