Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 The Rational Natural : Conflicts of the Modern in Eleanor Dark
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Discusses the treatment of female sexuality, reproduction, birth control, abortion and maternity in Dark's fiction. Focuses on the dilemma of the 'rational woman': a 'problematic created by modernity', the conflict between 'the authority of the natural ... and the searching eye of the modern rationalist epistemologies of science'. 'In attempting to provide access to the rationalism of science for her women characters, Dark's texts set up this contest between nature and science as an unresolved or even impossible dilemma haunted by the inevitable spectre of madness' (29).

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    y separately published work icon Hecate Hecate : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation vol. 27 no. 1 2001 Z895544 2001 periodical issue Issue has two main critical sections - Focus on Eleanor Dark and Focus on Younger Women - as well as creative writing. 2001 pg. 19-31
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