Thesis Restated: Through observing Kate Chopin’s writing in respect to feminist ideology, one can be further enlightened to the issues which her writing addresses in a historical context to determine how the presentation and endorsement of the protagonists’ actions were boldly addressed in a patriarchal setting which was reluctant to acknowledge, let alone accept the notions of Chopin’s ideas concerning gender.
Further Significance: New significance can therefore be attributed to the addressing of feminist issues by Chopin and her contribution to the modern conception of the female gender and to feminist literature is grasped in a more educated light concerning its function in modern canon and secondary feminism.
*Remaining Ignorance: As a result of Chopin’s portrayal of women, this began to cast the sex in a different light than patriarchy had wanted to perceive them and blurred the lines of the female gender that had been established. Chopin mixes support with criticisms for her character’s actions; however, the nature of the actions causes her writing to encounter difficulty in its reception by patriarchy.
Call for Research: Further investigation into the feminist movement that was in existence in Chopin’s time could display a relationship between the attempted social progress and the stances of Chopin’s writing. Also looking at the movement as it developed after Chopin’s writings were widely published and brought into critical observation would show the immediate effects and consequences of Chopin’s works on the society whose mindset she disrupted.
Coda: “Our identities can no more be kept separate from how our bodies look than they can be kept separate from the shadow selves of the female stereotype.” - Sandra Bartky
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Thesis Restated: Through observing Kate Chopin’s writing in respect to feminist ideology, one can be further enlightened to the issues which her writing addresses in a historical context to determine how the presentation and endorsement of the protagonists’ actions were boldly addressed in a patriarchal setting which was reluctant to acknowledge, let alone accept the notions of Chopin’s ideas concerning gender.
Further Significance: New significance can therefore be attributed to the addressing of feminist issues by Chopin and her contribution to the modern conception of the female gender and to feminist literature is grasped in a more educated light concerning its function in modern canon and secondary feminism.
*Remaining Ignorance: As a result of Chopin’s portrayal of women, this began to cast the sex in a different light than patriarchy had wanted to perceive them and blurred the lines of the female gender that had been established. Chopin mixes support with criticisms for her character’s actions; however, the nature of the actions causes her writing to encounter difficulty in its reception by patriarchy.
Call for Research: Further investigation into the feminist movement that was in existence in Chopin’s time could display a relationship between the attempted social progress and the stances of Chopin’s writing. Also looking at the movement as it developed after Chopin’s writings were widely published and brought into critical observation would show the immediate effects and consequences of Chopin’s works on the society whose mindset she disrupted.
Coda: “Our identities can no more be kept separate from how our bodies look than they can be kept separate from the shadow selves of the female stereotype.” - Sandra Bartky
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