Feminist Literature

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This paper compares the female literary voice in Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland." It illustrates that both writers playfully express their sexuality and creativity in an era that denied them their voice as a women. The paper examines their different approach to feminist content, in that Wolf addresses feminist history and Gilman projects a feminist utopia.

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'In Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" and in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland," two very different approaches to female history are constructed for the purposes of feminist debate. The latter depicts a future feminist utopia, the former a feminist past history where women's contribution, although real and valid, is invisible to the eyes. Both adopt a playful tone to find some space for women, specifically women writers, to articulate both their sexuality and creative expression in a world that has not only denied them education and voice, but denied even the existence of a desire for female sensuality and self-expression."

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