Categories: uncategorized
Date: 04 June 2009 18:53:28
Last week, whilst in Cambridge, I met up with my good friend P. We had some lovely coffee and cake together and then decided to peruse the local charity shops for a while where we were specifically hunting for a particular book for P.
We went into one shop and had a look at the book shelves. It appeared to be vaguely in alphabetical order but not quite. In fact P said that she often finds their display rather confusing and can't figure out where to find the books that she is after. So, we took the brave step and asked the rather (over) friendly assistant about the categorisation system. He pointed out that the books were alphabetical by author. On the shelf to our left were the 'mans books' and on the shelf to our right and the carousel by the door the 'ladies books'.
I wonder who decided which was a man book and which was a lady book? And would I be allowed to purchase a book from the man section? And if I wanted to read a book from the man section would that put my gender into question?
So many questions.