For feminist critics, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein illustrates women’s roles and the circumstances they endured during the nineteenth century. However, critics such as Johanna M. Smith argue concerning what the primary focus should be in the text. They understand that the women in the text are illustrated according to the ideals of a nineteenth century male-dominated ...
The feminist movement in the world of literature has had a past made up of struggles to be heard by the male-dominated mainstream and attempts to retrace the past to find over-looked texts that had been previously ignored. Women writers from all over the world have taken part in this struggle. It was not until ...
When Anne Bradstreet wrote her first book in 1650, Puritan sensibilities concerning the woman’s role were stringently defined. Women were considered subordinate to men and intellectually inferior. As a result, women were largely confined to their domestic roles. This did not include writing literature, and certainly not publishing it, so when Anne Bradstreet published The ...
A feminist bookstore is a store that highlights books that are by women and that are for women. Books written by men can be included. However, they must enhance and not take away from the feminist bookstore experience. A feminist bookstore makes sure that books by and for women are kept in the public view. ...
Since the beginning of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women have worked to communicate their experiences in dealing with a repressive patriarchal society and their efforts to destroy the degrading myths regarding women through writing. One of the most insistent and passionate voices of the emerging women authors has been that of the African-American woman. ...
