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Civilization and Her Discontents: The Unsettling Nature of Ma in Little House in the Big Woods
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January 1, 2008
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When I was a child, I read and reread the Little House series. My sister and I had our own bonnets to pretend we were Laura and Mary, and we reenacted stories from the series and the television shows popular at the time. My sister took the role of Mary, both because she was older and, I think unc
onsciously, because her appearance and behavior conformed to cultural expectations far better than mine. The first book, Little House in the Big Woods, was my favorite novel in the series.1 In my imagination, I would fantasize that I lived in Laura's cozy attic, with all the food and spices lying there awaiting the winter. We lived in a house surrounded by woods and little else, and like Laura's Ma, ...
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