Tag: patriarchy

• The Essential Question

  

  Justifiably, the Women’s Movement has fought long and hard for what, in reality, they should never have had to fight for. It must be galling to any woman who considers what they have had to earn over the past couple hundred years – not least for the strange ideas they have had to believe about…

  markwithanx

  November 16, 2021

  issues

  Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, patriarchy, toxic masculinity

• The Awakening

  

  Considering its place in the feminist canon, it is amusingly ironic that Kate Chopin’s rediscovery, in 1969, came about because of the work of a male student. In truth, though, it must be acknowledged that his work benefitted by coinciding with feminism’s second wave* and its interest in reclaiming female novelists lost because they failed…

  markwithanx

  October 14, 2020

  Literary Fiction

  19th century, Adele Ratignolle, Aphrodite, Edna Pontellier, feminist icon, imaginary, Kate Chopin, novel, patriarchy, Robert Lebrun, Second wave feminism, sexual awakening, societal norms, The Awakening