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  2. Modern Woman: The Lost Sex - Wikipedia

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    Modern Woman: The Lost Sex portrays the feminist movement not as a response to centuries-long subjugation of women, but rather as a misguided attempt to remedy the female population's lack of clear purpose after the Industrial Revolution forced them and their economic productivity out of the home. The authors argue that while feminism claims to ...

  3. Feminist literature - Wikipedia

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    In her book Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks states her belief that all types of media, including writing and children's books, need to promote feminist ideals. She argues "Children's literature is one of the most crucial sites for feminist education for critical consciousness precisely because beliefs and identities ...

  4. New Woman - Wikipedia

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    Women artists became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "New Woman". [ 26 ] In the late 19th century, Charles Dana Gibson depicted the "New Woman" in his piece, The Reason Dinner was Late , which shows a woman painting a policeman.

  5. Women's writing (literary category) - Wikipedia

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    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."

  6. Women's fiction - Wikipedia

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    Women's fiction edition of Ms. magazine in 2002. Women's fiction is an umbrella term for women-centered books that focus on women's life experience that are marketed to female readers, and includes many mainstream novels or women's rights books. It is distinct from women's writing, which refers to literature written by (rather than promoted to ...

  7. The True Story of Lidia Poët - AOL

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    Historian Clara Bounous, who wrote Lidia Poët: Una Donna Moderna (a modern woman), tells Italy 24 News of the show, "This is not a biography, it is not the true story of Lidia."

  8. How to Be a Woman - Wikipedia

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    In How to Be a Woman, Moran calls for a fifth wave of feminism to rise up. [7] [8] Moran states, "But if there is to be a fifth wave of feminism, I would hope that the main thing that distinguishes it from all that came before is that women counter the awkwardness, disconnect, and bullshit of being a modern woman not by shouting at it, internalizing it, or squabbling about it—but by simply ...

  9. Chick lit - Wikipedia

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    In 1992, Los Angeles Times critic Carolyn See was probably the first to spot that a new style of popular women's fiction was emerging. [11] Though she didn't use the term chick lit, in a review of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, the critic noted that McMillan's book was not "lofty" or "luminous" but was likely to be highly commercially successful.