feminist phase - protesting male standards, demand for autonomy. Towards a Feminist Poetics (1997) feminine phase - equal intelectual achievement to men, internatlised assumptions of female nature. patriarchal attack from its rebellious daughters. aversion and anger toward husband and child becomes self fulfilling prophecy. (statistically verifiable) reproductive system - compromises emotional and rational thought. the female malady (1985) female hysteria masks depression, behaviou regulated through labelling mental illness. women handicapped by social pressure and moral standard. 'coarseness of language, moving away from women being a subculture. 19th cen appropriating the masculine genre, moving away from mundane female moral crisis.
legacy of feminine self hatred and feminist withdrawal. female phase - imitation and protest, new techniques of literature A Literature of Their Own (1978) conflict between obedience and resistance, female writers feel paralysed, express female suffering.
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