Why D.H. Lawrence, Misogynist Male Author, Has Lots Of Female Fans

“For these women, Lawrence’s embrace of gender is not a bug; it’s a feature. Acknowledging the way gender matters to ideas isn’t (or rather, isn’t only) about imposing hierarchy based on which bits you happen to have. It’s also about affirming the weirdness and power and centrality of bodies – and of those people who have traditionally been most associated with bodies, which is to say, women.”