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Women Writing Culture




Quotes from "Women Writing Culture" eds. Ruth Behar, Deborah Gordon, 1995
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On the much praised landmark book  "The Mad Woman in the Attic" by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar:

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar produced a bible-sized tome The Mad Woman in the Attic in which they suggested that women writers in the ninetheen century wrote in the face of deep fears-about being unable to create,unable to become precursors, unable to overcome their distrust of authority. As "daughters" receiving the tradition from stern literary "fathers" who viewed them as inferiors, women attempting the pen struggled in isolation that they felt like illness, alienation that they felt like madness. Yet in writing their agoraphobia and hysteria into literature, they create a female literary subculture that empowered other women writers. [page 15 ]

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