1. Ahead of My Time
... tolerance, fought for the fifteenth amendment and equality for women rights in society. Above all else, women's modernism was shaped by a radical challenge to linguistic, spiritual, and social conventions, particularly as these writers journeyed further and further from the world of their foremothers into territory marked off as ... forbidden by patriarchal ideology. For these writers, a reinvention of social and spiritual truths through the alchemy of language was their primary task. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (Women and Economics) wrote "We are the only animal species in which the femal...
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