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Poetry readings became spaces for feminists to come together in cities and in rural communities, and talk about sexuality, women's roles, and the possibilities beyond heteronormative life. [55] Figures like Judy Grahn were figureheads for the women's movement, providing electrifying readings that enlivened and inspired audiences. [55]
A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku). Typically the poems included in single volume of poetry, or a cycle of poems, are linked by their style or thematic material.
"The Social Construction of the Second Sex" from Roles Women Play: Readings Towards Women's Liberation, Joreen (1971) [244] "The Vagina on Trial", Kathleen Barry (1971) [245] "United Women's Contingent: March On Washington Against the War" (1971) [246] "Using Your Maiden Name", Diane and Linda from Womankind (1971) [247]
"Poem 92, called Philosophical Satire", Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1600s) [8] The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men, Lucrezia Marinella (1601) A Muzzle for Melastomus, the Cynical Baiter of, and Foul-mouthed Barker Against Eve's Sex. Or An Apologetical Answer to that Irreligious and Illiterate Pamphlet Made by ...
Feminist literature is fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry, which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal civil, political, economic, and social rights for women. It often addresses the roles of women in society particularly as regarding status, privilege, and power – and generally portrays the ...
The World's Wife is a collection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in the UK in 1999 by both Picador [1] and Anvil Press Poetry [2] and later published in the United States by Faber and Faber in 2000. [3] Duffy's poems in The World's Wife focus on either well known female figures or fictional counterparts to well known male ...
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 Unsex'd Females, a Poem (1798), by Richard Polwhele, is a polemical intervention into the public debates over the role of women at the end of the 18th century.The poem is primarily concerned with what Polwhele characterizes as the encroachment of radical French political and philosophical ideas into British society, particularly those associated with the Enlightenment.