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In 1963, two works help bring feminist concern into the public arena “ America women ansd the feminine mystique. This work details the great inequality between men and women in the workplace,education and society as a whole. Armed with verifiable evidence of their inequality, women asserted political pressure in congress and state legislative houses across America for reforms. As women began toenter the political arena and articulated their concerns, a freelance writer.
By 1966, friedan was elected president of the newly formed national organization for women (NOW) whose platform arguedfor equal opportunity for women “under the law”, including educational and employment reforms; the right of choice concerning abortion, and a host or other social, political, and personal issues.During this time and throughout the 1070s feminist theorist and critics began to examine the traditional literary canon, discovering copious examples of male dominance and prejudice that supportedBeauvoir assertion that males consider the female “the other” stereotypes of women abounded in the canon women were sex maniacs, goddesses of beauty, mindless entities or old spinsters. In addition althoughCharles Dickens, William Wordsworth, Nathaniel Hawthore, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, and host of other male author found their way into the establish canon. Similarly, the roles of female,fictionalized character were often limited to minor character whose chief taints reinforced the male`s stereotypical image of women. Female theorists, critics, and scholar such as Woolf and be Beauvoir weresimply ignored, their writings seldom, if ever, referred to by the male crafters of the literary canon.
Feminist theorists and critics of this era declared that male authors who created and enjoyedsuch as place or prominence within the canon had assumed that their real readers were all men. Women reading such works could easily be duped into reading like man. In addition because most of the...