Violence Against Women One More Time,

Once more briefly on the topic of the oppression and violence against women.
I remember reading The Donegal Woman for the first time.I started reading it in California, where I was fortunate enough to be able to talk a lot with the author Sean . What startled me when I was was my own reaction to the brutality against the wee young bride , at the hands of hands of her husband , a crude and raw exploited and oppressed man himself. My own reaction was anger at the author, and I had to really look at that.
So well did this book convey the brutality, that i was angry that a man had written it. The brutality against this young woman was conveyed so well that I felt as if I had been exposed and all the brutality against all women had been exposed. It was as if my own undeserved shame, carried around for years and really never to be discarded was exposed and I was angry at the author for doing that. i was furious for a while that a man could have such insight into this violence.
I mention this only because without exhausting and crippling ourselves with emotion and pain about this unique and pervasive form of violence against women , it is good that we are raising these issues in various ways on this blog.
I would recommend this book to any blogger that has not read it.