[Hardy-l] genderising children

[Jackie Wilkinson]

Rosemarie wrote:
Jackie says, "viewed as being an underclass in the same way as the women 
whose dress they adhered to" than to do with the indeterminism (in many 
complicated social, physical, cultural ways) of the undeveloped young adult.

Perhaps I was a little unclear here, Rosemarie. First of all may I say that
you succinctly make the point regarding cultural dress with which I agree
completely. My point in describing boys 'in petticoats' as an underclass was
that until the point which you rightly call the age of reason boys remained
with women: their mothers, sisters, aunts, nannies, governesses, until they
were of the age of reason and thus in this sense they were aligned with
women as the 'other' of the accepted social male.
I feel, however, that in introducing this I have only succeeded in wandering
off course in so far as Little Father Time/Little Jude is concerned - who
was 'out of petticoats'!
All the best,
Jacky