Written in 1950 by Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet is a critical look at women’s relationship with religion. The Hearing Trumpet tells the story of Marian Leatherby, a ninety-two year old ex-patriot British woman in Spain being given a hearing trumpet, right before her son’s family forces her into a nursing home, a religious community in Santa Brigida called Lightsome Hall. She then gets a private interview with a doctor at her retirement home, who obsesses over her glands. Then, another woman at the retirement home dies. They then find out that woman was actually a man. Marian feels like she spend her whole life waiting for something that never happened. “A great deal of my life has been spent waiting, often quite fruitlessly” (page 12) narrator feels like she spend her whole life waiting for something that never happened. “A great deal of my life has been spent waiting, often quite fruitlessly” she waits for adventure, but it never happens. 1950s American culture failed women, making them expect great things that weren’t actually likely to happen. Religion often sets the followers up to believe miraculous things will happen to them. Women in the 1950’s often ended up with nothing but controlling husbands and domestic chores. In my opinion it is not good to completely admire anyone, including God”
I do not know of any religion that does not declare women to be feeble-minded, unclean, generally inferior creatures to males, although most Humans assume that we are the cream of all species. Women, alas; but thank God, Homo Sapiens! Most of us, I hope, are now aware that a woman should not have to demand Rights. The Rights were there from the beginning; they must be Taken Back Again, including the Mysteries which were ours and which were violated, stolen or destroyed, leaving us with the thankless hope of pleasing a male animal, probably of one’s own species.”
I do not know of any religion that does not declare women to be feeble-minded, unclean, generally inferior creatures to males, although most Humans assume that we are the cream of all species. Women, alas; but thank God, Homo Sapiens! Most of us, I hope, are now aware that a woman should not have to demand Rights. The Rights were there from the beginning; they must be Taken Back Again, including the Mysteries which were ours and which were violated, stolen or destroyed, leaving us with the thankless hope of pleasing a male animal, probably of one’s own species.” This shows the start of women declaring their own rights in religion after early rules of religion favored men. Women’s sexual ties were excessively controlled, and most women were primarily valued for their ability to sexually please men, give birth and do domestic chores.
Coming to Age 