WS100 Lecture Notes - Bell Hooks, Second-Wave Feminism, Mantra
26 Feb 2014
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As writers, women have always had to submit themselves and their writing to the scrutiny of male eyes. Indeed, many women writers have feared men"s response to the content and form of their writing. For centuries, women were denied an education that would allow them to write, and when they did they had to submit their work to the approval of men in order to have it published. (gerda lerner. Feminist consciousness: from the middle ages to eighteen-seventy. In the course of writing, women writers have often adopted pseudonyms to express their passions that included female characters who stood outside of traditional roles. Women have had to disguise their passions as piety and their rebellion as obedience, according carolyn heilbrun. Examples of religious writing include those written by the mystics marjorie kemp and julian of norwich, both from the middle ages.
