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A. A Story of Oki Islands; Hannah Abbott; Vanessa Abrams; Kay Adams-Corleone; Irene Adler; Aunt Agatha; Akivasha; Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Cathy Ames
Written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex, Sarah Fyge Egerton (1686) [14] A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, Mary Astell (1694) An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c.
The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction.
The percentage of female characters plummeted from 35% in their 30s to 16% in their 40s, whereas, the percentage of male characters increased as they moved from their 30s (25%) to their 40s (31%).
Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s.
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A category containing female characters in William Shakespeare's works. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. H.
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."