Dickinson,
Austen and Woolf contrubited to empower women, and had a say in an
authoritarian and phalocentric world.
Dickinson
unlike Whitman refused to explore '' America as a land full of
democracy and prosperity''.instead, she was deeply concerned with
depecting her inner world.
What's
remarkable about Dickison is that by not showing America explicitly,
she showed to us an America full of contradiction.
Her
perspective tells us that perhaps America it is a great place, is a
land full of diversity and posibilities, but only if you are a men.
Dickison
tell us that if you are a woman during that time you don't have
rights and America does not look as a prosperous as Whitman thinks.
But
Dickison was not the only woman who spoke her mind while writing.
Austen also contributed in her own way.
Always
unsing irony, Austen made fun of those silly and extrelly romantic
novels that did not contributed much. Threfore, the sharp and witty
Austen decided to wrote and depict an extremely conservative,
patriarchal and male-ruled world in her work.
She
always did it through a female perspective playing with irony.
She
wrote superficial situations and ''love stories'' telling the reader
how to empower themselves.
All
in all, Austen told us stories about phalocentric societies ruled by
men but always using a female voice, showing us that male societies
are not always good or completely perfect.
Her
narrative technique sought to empower women.
Finally,
Woolf through her writing criticided patriarchal institutions,
defending the place of women in society. Woolf
wrote extensively on the problem of women’s access to the learned
professions, such as academia, the church, the law, and medicine, she
never
went to university, and she resented the fact that her brothers and
male friends had had an opportunity that was denied to her.
Woolf
also concerned herself with the question of women’s equality with
men in marriage, and she brilliantly evoked the inequality of her
parents’
marriage in her novel to the light house 1927.
sources
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100470100
To be honest I love these three women and I'm not saying this because I'm a woman. I admire them because even if they lived in a phallocentric society as you explained it, where women were under men oppression, they were brave to express themselves. They wanted to change the way how society viewed women and they demonstrated it in their novels.
ResponderEliminarIn the case of Dickinson, what you explain is true, she gave different meanings to things. I remember my presentation of Literature in which we explain the different visions of death that she had.
In the case of Jane Austen, I know that she had to publish her novels with a male pseudonym, Despite this, she could publish a feminist novel anyway.
They knew that the only way to change the perspective of thing is through writings, because these writings could support their new ideas and they showed the changes that society had.