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The Painter's Honeymoon by Lord Frederick Leighton, 1864

2,355 words

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Now, some might respond to Lawrence’s description of marriage by asking, understandably, “Where is love in all of this? What has become of love between man and wife?” Yet Lawrence speaks again and again, especially in Women in Love, of love between man and wife as a means to wholeness, as a way to transcend the false, ego-centered self. In a 1914 letter he tells a male correspondent: Read more …

Published: December 6, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, emasculation, femininity, feminism, manliness, North American New Right, originals, sex differences, sexuality | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence on Men & Women, Part 5

Derek Hawthorne

Icarus by Lord Frederick Leighton

1,970 words

Part 5 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

4. A New Relation Between Man and Woman

So what is to be done? How are we to repair the damage that has been done in the modern world to the relation between the sexes? How are we to make men into men again, and women into women?

D. H. Lawrence on Men & Women, Part 4

Derek Hawthorne

Astarte Syriaca by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1877

2,757 words

Part 4 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

3. The Nature of Woman

In Fantasia of the Unconscious Lawrence writes, “Women will never understand the depth of the spirit of purpose in man, his deeper spirit. And man will never understand the sacredness of feeling to woman. Each will play at the other’s game, but they will remain apart.” Read more …

Published: December 3, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, emasculation, femininity, feminism, manliness, North American New Right, originals, sex differences, sexuality | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence on Men & Women, Part 3

Derek Hawthorne

2,744 words

Part 3 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

2. The Nature of Man

As we have seen, Lawrence believes that men (most men) need to have a woman in their lives. Their relationship to a woman serves to ground their lives, and to provide the man not only with a respite from the woes of the world, but with energy and inspiration. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, emasculation, femininity, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, manliness, North American New Right, originals, sex differences, sexuality, Taoism | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence on Men & Women, Part 2

Derek Hawthorne

2,028 words

Part 2 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

In a 1923 newspaper interview Lawrence is quoted as saying “If men were left to themselves, they would rush off . . . into destruction. But women keep life back at its own center. They pull the men back. Women have enormous passive strength, the strength of inertia.” Here Lawrence uses an image he was very fond of: women are at the center, the hub. This is because they are closer to “the source” than men are.

D. H. Lawrence on Men & Women, Part 1

Derek Hawthorne

Venus and Mars by Sidney Harold Meteyard

2,077 words

Part 1 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

1. Love and Strife

In a 1913 letter D. H. Lawrence writes that “it is the problem of to-day, the establishment of a new relation, or the readjustment of the old one, between men and women.” Read more …