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The interest of American feminist poets in the rights of minorities have often put them in conflict with American institutions like the American Academy of Poets. [2] One of the strategies of feminist poets is to demonstrate "their opposition to a dominant poetry culture that does not recognize the primacy of gender and other oppressions". [2]
This is a list of feminist poets. 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.
Yosano's poems turned the symbolic reference of the female body from motherhood and child-feeding to an expression of natural beauty, especially for young women. Midaregami also subverted the contemporary norms of feminine modesty and sexual secrecy. The subject of her poems openly and freely expresses her sexual desire to her lover.
Luise Hensel (1798–1876), German religious writer and poet; Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), Vietnamese poet; Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), English children's writer and poet; Margaret Holford (1778–1852), English poet and translator; Mary Howitt (1799–1888), English poet and children's writer; Abby B. Hyde (1799–1872), American ...
Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement is a 1970 anthology of feminist writings edited by Robin Morgan, a feminist poet and founding member of New York Radical Women. [1] It is one of the first widely available anthologies of second-wave feminism.
Sandra Ellen Mortola was born in New York City on December 27, 1936, and grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens. [4] In 1957, she married Elliot Gilbert. [4]Gilbert received her B.A. from Cornell University, her M.A. from New York University, and her Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University in 1968.
The Christian Religion, As Profess’d by a Daughter Of the Church of England (1705) Title page from the third edition of A Serious Proposal Mary Astell (12 November 1666 – 11 May 1731) was an English protofeminist writer, philosopher, and rhetorician who advocated for equal educational opportunities for women .
Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience, edited by George D. Smith (1994) Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature, Dorothy Allison (1994) "Suffragette City: The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band", Ben Kim (1994) [533] The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870, Gerda Lerner (1994)