Feminist Lens Of Some British Contemporary Women Writers
Feminist Lens Of Some British Contemporary Women Writers

Summary/Abstract: The period following the Second World War was characterised, among other important movements, by the controversial movement of feminism; it was interested in 'freeing' the woman from the rigid position society kept her tightly closed in. It was dealing with the emancipation of women in a society that viewed her only in strict roles: the wife, the housekeeper, the mother, the servant, and others as such. The feminist movement fought for the right to make woman's voice heard. Just like any 'revolutionary' movement, the feminist movement felt like protesting against something or somewhat; interestingly enough, this led to the fact that, in the 70's feminism came to be perceived as simply anti-family, anti-marriage, anti-children, and perhaps even anti-religion, not to mention anti-men. Most early feminists, as especially detailed by Graglia, certainly regarded marriage and family as so burdensome as to approach slavery. Feminism presented the family as a kind of prison, with a working career on the outside as a kind of liberation.

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