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Ángeles Mastretta (born October 9, 1949, in Puebla) is a post-boom Mexican author, journalist, actress, and film producer.She is well known for creating inspirational female characters and fictional pieces that reflect the social and political realities of Mexico in her life.
Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) [1] was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes.. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC, during World War II. [2]
Throughout the 20th century, literary criticism of Barrett Browning's poetry remained sparse until her poems were discovered by the women's movement. She once described herself as being inclined to reject several women's rights principles, suggesting in letters to Mary Russell Mitford and her husband that she believed that there was an ...
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing ...
Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
The acclaimed writer will debut an original poem each Friday – becoming The Independent’s own resident poet. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
“His mom was an outstanding example of a strong, independent woman, and still to this day, I tell everybody, I wish I had the traveling abilities of my mother-in-law,” Kylie,
However, over a decade later, Montefiore reconsidered her opinion of the value of Scars Upon My Heart, calling the anthology a 'complex and (partly) oppositional tradition of women's war poetry' that included 'thoughtful poems by women deeply aware of the contradictions of their own passive but mentally active role'. [17]