Women's life

In this book, Isabella Ducrot evokes and gives voice to threefundamental issues: what it is to be a woman, childhood,and - most important of all - what she terms “ignorance”.These three experiences of alienation, so often intertwinedin our culture, are questioned here from a personal perspective. Blending together thoughts, short stories and autobiographical recollections, Isabella Ducrot reveals howthe not-knowing of childhood and the age-old exclusionof women from all kinds of cultural or social discourse arenot only experiences of estrangement and forms of suffering at being deprived of a voice, they may also offeran unprecedented and privileged gateway to reconqueringthat voice. The author seems to suggest that if one wishes to understand the intricacies of theological dogma, onemust be able to chant it out as if it were a nursery rhyme,savouring its very meaninglessness.“There is no tomorrow, there is no tomorrow,” runs the whispering refrain at the end of her reflections; her awareness ofthis fact seems to open the path to irresistible happiness.