feminism (wooooo!)

I was wondering if any of you guys have suggestions of short stories or poems that I can use as I want to do feminism for my coursework?

I have a few ideas but it would be good to hear other recommendations :smile:

thaanks

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Reply 1

iheartplums

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

They're more novella's than short stories.

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter has some good short stories in it though :smile:

Reply 2

fez_and_a_broom

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Jane Eyre, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, for non-fiction Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman (or just generally for fun and thought-provoking reading really), a great deal of Sylvia Plath's body of work but especially "The Applicant".
Hope that helps! Also yay, someone else interested in feminism especially in literature! :biggrin:

EDIT: oops, sorry, just saw you wanted short stories and poems really... all the works listed are novels apart from Plath, sorry about that! But they do make for interesting reads anyway :smile:

I haven't read it, but Plath's The Bell Jar is a pretty short story, and she tends to be quite a feminist, so perhaps that might work as well.

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Reply 3

Hal.E.Lujah

Hmmm need to know what sort of work you're doing. A level? Uni? GCSEs?

Classical feminism? Neo feminism?

I'd suggest reading The Stepford Wives, it's fast becoming a forgotten classic, thanks to the awful, awful film.