The Development of Feminist Thought towards Increasing Complexity in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s Story of a Modern Woman, Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other.

As a socio-political movement and academic theory, feminism has developed into an increasingly complex body of critical thought and practice. From its origins in the late eighteenth century (Olympe de Gouges’s The Rights of Women and Female Citizens [1791] and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman [1792]) to its current manifestations (fourth-wave feminism) in the twenty-first century, feminism has evolved by advocating for and critically responding to various changes in societal norms concerning women’s roles in the public and private sphere, as well as ideologies of gender identity. This thesis focuses on the development of feminist thought towards increasing complexity with respect to how women’s roles and identities were perceived and represented by feminist authors, in three major works of feminist fiction from the late nineteenth-, mid twentieth- and early twenty-first-century, respectively: Story of a Modern Woman (1894) by Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Golden Notebook by Doris...Show moreAs a socio-political movement and academic theory, feminism has developed into an increasingly complex body of critical thought and practice. From its origins in the late eighteenth century (Olympe de Gouges’s The Rights of Women and Female Citizens [1791] and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman [1792]) to its current manifestations (fourth-wave feminism) in the twenty-first century, feminism has evolved by advocating for and critically responding to various changes in societal norms concerning women’s roles in the public and private sphere, as well as ideologies of gender identity. This thesis focuses on the development of feminist thought towards increasing complexity with respect to how women’s roles and identities were perceived and represented by feminist authors, in three major works of feminist fiction from the late nineteenth-, mid twentieth- and early twenty-first-century, respectively: Story of a Modern Woman (1894) by Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) and Girl, Woman, Other (2019) by Bernardine Evaristo.Show less

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