Dorothy Sayers was a woman. More importantly, to her, she was a human being, a unique individual with he rown abilities, interests and concerns. She practices her own liberation by keeping in mind her humanity- by doing her own thingm whethor or not that thing was ordinarily understood to be "feminine". These essays "are among the most penetrating analyses of women that have appeared in this century, and they are certainly the wittiest. Her weapon was the rapier, not the battering ram or the bomb."