In this novel, Julia Alvarez manages to capture and express the true feelings of women which deconstructs the stereotypes through Yo. Feminism is defined as “a political movement that works to achieve equal rights for women and men” (Hirsch 113). For the past ages, women were seen in the society as inferior to men and were greatly excluded from education and the right to property ownership. A British feminist named Mary Wollstonecraft argues, “educational restrictions keep women in a state of ignorance and slavish dependence” (Blake 117). The shattering of classifications and stereotypes, and the subversion of traditional gender roles, and the concept of sisterhood or unity among women are among the main tenets of feminist criticism.
Is the narrator breaking free from oppression or merely giving in to a new oppressor? Thoughtfully expressed Katherine. One of the problems with trying to interpret gender relations in Native American literature is that many native cultures do not have the entrenched history of patriarchal domination that American mainstream culture has had. Many native traditions, by contrast, are far more egalitarian or matriarchal. How does this information affect how we interpret and understand “Yellow Woman”?
She shows how women can only be categorised as either an angel or a whore. It shows the way that women can only be judged at the time. She also frequently alludes to the “bad” women in literature to show how women could only be categorised in those binary opposites like Lady Macbeth or Eve. She uses rhetorical devices to explain how bad women are needed to disrupt the static order which is Patriarchy. Atwood also shows her opposition to the extreme feminism that existed in her time where feminism was influencing the creation of literature at the time.
In this paper I will focus on quoting and analyzing the theories developed by Native women activists working in both sovereignty and feminist struggles. These analyses will hopefully complicate the somewhat simplistic manner in which Native women's activism is often portrayed. 

 One of the most well-known writings on Native American women and feminism is Annette Jaimes's 1992 article, “American Indian Women: At the Center of Indigenous Resistance in North America.” In this essay, Jaimes argues that Native women activists, except those who are “assimilated,” do not consider themselves feminists. Feminism, according to Jaimes, is an imperial construct that assumes the legitimacy of U.S. colonial strong hold on indigenous nations. Thus, in order to support sovereignty Native women activists reject feminist politics: 

 Those who have most openly identified themselves [as feminists] have tended to be among the more assimilated of Indian women activists, generally accepting of the colonialist ideology that indigenous nations are now legitimate sub-parts of the U.S. geopolitical corpus rather than separate nations, that Indian people are now a minority with the overall population rather than the citizenry of their own distinct nations.
Lillian Eileen Doherty is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park. Praise / Awards "Applying an elegant blend of narratological and audience-oriented analytic strategies, Doherty argues that, for the late twentieth-century woman reader (as well as the male reader of lower-class status), the Odyssey must be considered a problematic text. In contrast to the bulk of Greco-Roman literature, it assumes the presence of females in its implied audience and offers them positive subject positions with which to identify--those of privileged, intelligent women like Penelope and Arete. Yet, by restricting the narratological operations of such 'good' women to the secondary function of
How has your understanding of the contextual values portrayed in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf been shaped by your study of A Room of One’s Own? Edward Albee’s 1962 dramatic play, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’, written at a time of change after World War II, addresses the fragmentation of the human condition, the artifice of the American Dream and the destructive nature of illusions. Meanwhile, Virginia Woolf’s polemic on women and fiction in 1928, ‘A Room of One’s Own’, examines the paradigms of gender inequality and attitudes towards women’s independence in the early 20th century, and truth and illusion. Although written in different contexts, both authors reflect similar values of their time. Woolf endeavours to prove that for women, financial and intellectual freedom is a necessity to attaining happiness.
In a male-dominated society, this was unheard of. Through these books, she expressed her ideas, which women came to listen to. Mary Wollstonecraft is remembered chiefly for her book “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” (1792), a polemic treatise that deemed marriage “legal prostitution” (“Mary” par 2). Mary’s book, “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, was a type of guide for women who were thought lowly of by their husbands or were abused. Mary was also a contributing editor and founder of the Analytical Review, a radical London newspaper (“Mary” par 2).
Wollstonecraft, a European author, also wrote about the oppression of women. Her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, was written in response to the new French Constitution in 1792, following the French Revolution which declared women excluded from all public areas. She asks the question, ‘What achievement suggests one person is more important than the other?’ Virtue is, she writes, the virtues of freedom to make your own decisions about your life and your family (Wollstonecraft, 1792). She also suggested that a woman who is educated and is allowed to practice the virtues of life will become an equal and not a dependent of her husband. What women must have felt at being officially excluded from public areas among other oppressive social behaviors was likely beyond humiliating.
I agree with Anne Mellor in the fact that she portrays Frankenstein as being sexist and against women. In the analytical essay, “Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein”, written by Anne Mellor, she talks about how Shelley depicts women’s injustice in nineteenth century society through her use of characters, science, political constructs, and offers an alternative portrayal through the DeLaceys. She explains how Victor Frankenstein possesses the patriarchal mindset prevalent during this time through his inability to exhibit balanced emotions, his creation of a being which perpetuates the idea that females are no longer necessary, and his need to keep women in a submissive role. Mellor describes how the women within the novel are confined to the home, while the men are
This also identifies the sexual restraint women endured and may also allude to the ‘mistress’ role. The ‘lunatic’ in Jane Eyre’s, may relate to Bertha Mason, and the ‘fallen woman’ or mistress role to that of Celine Varens. Both are also depicted as lacking in self-control and utilised in the novel as representations of what fate may befall Jane should she ‘relax her restraint’ (p198). Understanding that her heroine is such a woman, Bronte must incorporate self-control to maintain realism. Yet Jane is also depicted as being passionate and pursues autonomy and family.