Cocksure and Hensure Women in Women in Love

Abstract

With the two kinds of femininity go two kinds of confidence: there are the women who are cocksure, and the women who are hensure.D. H. Lawrence. “Cocksure Women and Hensure Men” (written in 1928) These quotes draw a connecting line between Lawrence’s curious, if not controversial, theories on women as they appear in his later articles, published as the collection of Assorted Articles (1930), and his possible earlier “drafts” for these clear-cut categories of women. In spite of an incredibly r...