More Than A Magazine, A Movement
“I was very interested in exploring a world—our current world—where women make up the majority of the population, but are the minority in power,” said Elizabeth L. Silver of her newest novel,I first met Elizabeth L. Silver years ago when we both taught for Writing Workshops Los Angeles. I was aware she had published both a novel and a but had no idea what else she was working on.
By telling one woman’s story about her path to power, in turn, my goal was to also create a narrative that might be representative for many women.: The number nine is important in the book. Sylvia is one of nine female students admitted to Harvard Law School—which only admitted women nine years before—and later is the first female Supreme Court justice.
Many of those basic elements of independence and autonomy are different now—at least legally. However, socially and psychologically, I’m not convinced that they have actually changed as much as we might have expected when examining the evolution on a granular level. Instead, I see that these issues are masquerading in other forms, such as social bias, lack of parental leave, the mental load for mothers, and so much more.
There is an evergreen quality to the issues explored, contrasted with the fight to advance judicial change. Sylvia says, “I did what I could at the time to chip away at the old law. Back then something is what we needed and now something isn’t enough, and so we begin again…”I think that it is both a perennial struggle and that the goalposts keep changing, which is a good thing.
Sylvia is aware of how she is at the vanguard and the privilege that has landed her there alongside her struggles. I wonder how you wanted to frame the struggle for change for women—working within the system, as she does, but then wanting to take the system down and rebuild it.Sylvia struggles with how to best effect change, and she realizes through her own experience and the experiences of those around her how vastly different actions can impact large change.
Still, despite my deep interest and admiration, despite my own legal education, she and the other female supremes felt to me like figures of fantasy. Real, but out of reach.
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