Gender, Women's Writing and Feminism
Cleopatra: Feminist Icon? Many of my students are interested in gender, women's writing and feminist criticism. I have recently made available a short introduction to this topic. I have also started to assemble a list of some useful and thought-provoking comments together with some historic quotations. Reflect and Enjoy! The last quotation on this page of the blog references Cleopatra... "one is not born, but rather becomes a woman." Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex "Historically social inequality between men and women can be traced to unequal power relations in particular societies [...] But it can also be traced - possibly relatedly - to systems of representation: how women are represented in plays, rituals, photographic images, novels, films, etc." Alan Durant and Nigel Fabb, Literary Studies in Action (1990), p. 43. “When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even