Tag Archives: Feminism in Literature

Fiction and the Modern American South

Southern novelists and short story writers Lisa Alther and Lee Smith investigate questions of their genre, such as the major literary and social preoccupations of fiction in the modern American South. How do novelists use their experience, literary and personal? To what degree … Continue reading

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A Dilemma of Feminism

Mary Armfield Hill discusses her biography Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Making of a Radical Feminist, 1860-1896. Hill speaks about Gilman’s ideas about social justice, her rejection of social Darwinism, and theories about women’s liberation. Hill reflects on her work as a biographer … Continue reading

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