姜与记错了，那本《女权主义简史》她其实看过，虽然只看了绪论部分，她还用铅笔圈出了一些话：
--“When Woolf was writing in the 1920s，feminists had hardly begun to articulate，let alone address，women’s special problems：issues to do with childbirth and child- rearing，or the strain on women who had to combine housework and/or childcare with work outside the home.”
（女性面临着特殊问题：生育和养育孩子，以及应对既要做家务和/或照顾孩子又要外出工作的巨大压力。而在20世纪20年代伍尔夫写作时，女权主义尚未提出这些问题，更不用说解决这些问题。）
--“…in England，right up until 1960s at least，the word ’feminist’ was unusually pejorative. Very few women，however deeply engaged in fighting for women’s right，would have described themselves as “feminists.”
（…在英格兰，至少直到20世纪60年代，“女权主义者”通常都是个贬义词。鲜少有女性，无论她们如何深度投身于女性权利斗争，会自称为“女权主义者”。）
--“How often，still，do we hear women anxiously asserting ‘I’m not a feminist but…’
（至今，我们仍会频繁听到女性们急切地声明“虽然我不是女权……”。）
--“…one instead，with a hint of anxiety，that she took up her stand，certainly not because she was a feminist，or even because she was a woman，but because she was a human being.
（她们其中的一位，略显不安地表示，采取这样的立场绝对不是因为她是女权主义者，甚至也不是因为她是一个女人，而是因为她是一个人。）
--“When I recently asked some women in their early 20s - some of whom were university-educated，others working，and all，clearly，beneficiaries of earlier battles for women’s rights - whether they considered themselves feminists，or indeed had any interest in feminism，most of them replied，flatly，no…she argued，feminism has become “institutionalized”…it demands commitment，not simply to ideas，but to a generalized ideology.
（我近来问过一些20岁出头的年轻女性，这些女性当中有人受过高等教育，有人参与工作，显然都是早期女权运动的受益者，当我问她们是否认为自己是女权主义者，或是否对女权主义感兴趣时，大部分人都断然地回答了：不……她认为，女权主义已经被“制度化”了，它不仅要求忠实于某些思想，还要信奉一套笼统的意识形态。）
--Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley，for example，called their third collection of essays Who’s Afraid of Feminism？They argued that ’attacks on feminism frequently merge into a wider misogyny’；’the feminist’ is now the name given to the disliked or despised woman，much as ’man-hater’ or ’castrating bitch’，’harridan’ or ’witch’，were used before 1960s.They added that women also have to expose and eradicate the misogyny inherent in feminism itself.”
（英美的一些女权主义者例如Juliet Mitchell和Ann Oakley，将她们的第三本论文集取名为《谁在害怕女权主义？》。她们认为：对女权主义的攻击往往演变为更广泛的“厌女症”。“女权主义者”现在已经成了那些（在传统社会中）不受欢迎或备受鄙视的女性的代名词，这与20世纪60年代前的“恨男女”、“（剥夺阳刚之气的）阉割婊”、“更年期母夜叉”以及“女巫”等称呼如出一辙。她们还说，女性也需要揭露并根除女权主义自身固有的厌女传统。）
--“But though Virginia Woolf’s ’right to earn a living’ was，and remains，central to feminism，getting on for a century after she wrote it is clear that its attainment by no means solved all women’s problems. Women’s work - despite the much-publicized earnings of some high-fliers in the business world - remains lower paid；or，in the case of housework，not paid at all. ”
（虽然，伍尔夫所谓的“谋生权”曾是，并且目前仍是女权主义的中心内容，但在她写下这些话之后一个世纪过去了，获得谋生权显然并没能解决女性所面临的全部问题。尽管某些女性职场精英的高收入被广为宣传，女性在工作中得到的报酬依旧很低；而在家务方面，则完全没有报酬。）
绪论最后作者写道：“Perhaps these younger women will feel differently in ten yeas or so，when they find themselves juggling family，housework，and a job；perhaps they will find that they need to re-invent feminism to suit their own experience. But in a way，I hope they will not need to.”
（也许在未来10年左右，这些年轻的女性发现自己难以平衡家庭、家务和工作时会有一些不同的感受；也许她们会发现需要根据自身经历重新定义女权主义。但从某种程度上而言，我希望她们不必如此。）
这本书出版于2005年，时至今日，虽然更多人喊起了反美役反污名化的抗争口号，但谋生权依旧是女性权利的最核心课题，“Feminism”还远远没达成一个“过时的”可以“被消解”的“腐朽的”、“死掉的”词汇，它仍需不断被提起被传递被重新定义。因为无数女性仍在挣扎。
天边泛白，黎明曙光终于结束这个漫长的夜晚。