 Recent scholarship on race, class and sexuality in literature further complicate the issue and militate against the impulse to posit one "women's tradition".Some scholars, such as Roger Lonsdale, mentions that something of a commonality exists and that "it is not unreasonable to consider" women writers" in some aspects as a special case, given their educational insecurities and the constricted notions of the properly 'feminine' in social and literary behaviour they faced.