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A Brief Overview of Feminism

has many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overcome. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down and write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. In short, it would be a long time before women are considered equal in the literary arena. Fortunately, the liberal ideas of the 1960s and 1970s made feminist writings more widely accepted. Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, and Nikki Giovanni were just a few among the many women that were beginning to express themselves through literature. Feminism in literature has expanded beyond women just voicing their own opinions. It now includes several different ideas. Women are no longer looked at as shrew-like banshees screaming for someone to listen to the injustices done to them. Women are now regarded as literary equals; some women are literary giants. Feminist literary criticism moves with time from the criticism of writing by men and the exploration of writing by women to a questioning of what it means at all to engage with or in language. If all language carries worlds within it, assumptions and values that lie embedded in the simplest of utterances, then how can women take up such language, the language of patriarchy, and hope to use it to forge a better world for women? (Rivkin and Ryan, 531) Based upon the number of feminists and feminist writings in circulation today, it appears that women have already answered that question themselves....

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