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Alexander was born in Harlem, New York City, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman Clifford Alexander Jr. [6] and Adele Logan Alexander, a professor of African-American women's history at George Washington University and writer.
Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet, first woman to receive Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, in 1955; Esther Raab (1894–1981), Palestinian/Israeli poet and prose writer; Elsa Rautee (1897–1987), Finnish poet; Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright; Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), English writer, poet and gardener
Portrait of Lady Mary Wroth. Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 [1] – 1651/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance.A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation.
Luminarium - an online anthology of English literature; A Time-Line of English Poetry from Old English to Post Modern; Representative Poetry Online Includes an index of 4,079 English poems by 618 poets, with bibliographies and literary criticism. Romantic Circles - a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature ...
[15] While it is difficult to ascertain from these oral traditions whether the authors of early texts were male or female, precolonial native poetry certainly addresses issues relevant to women in a sensitive and positive way, for example the Seminole poem, 'Song for Bringing a Child Into the World.' [16] In fact, native poetry is a separate ...
Since its 1987 publication, Stealing the Language has been groundbreaking for feminist literary criticism as well as for the feminist poetry movement.Google Scholar shows that it is cited in at least 355 scholarly works with varied subjects ranging from studies of individual women poets like Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich to books on feminist literary criticism and the gendered nature of ...
Although they both wanted to pursue architecture studies at the School of Architecture, Lin was not admitted simply because she was a woman. [14] She therefore enrolled at the School of Fine Arts. [15] Despite the university's gender-discriminatory policies, Lin still pursued her passion for architecture and took rigorous architecture courses.