A Look Into the Brilliant Minds of the Feminist Movement

 From Britain and worked in the country as a teacher  Wrote her powerful work A Room of One’s Own declaring that men treat women as inferiors and they must reject social ideals for femaleness to define themselves  A Room of One’s Own centers on a story in which Shakespeare’s sister who is equally talented and gifted as writer is stifled for being a woman  WHO AM I?

 Part of the second wave feminist movement in the late 60’s and 70’s  Wrote Sexual Politics and brought forth the assertion that a female is born and a woman created  Says that sexual politics are the operations of power relations in society and that in the West, institutional power rests with the man  WHO AM I?

 Broke down female writing into three phases: femine, feminist, and female  Brought forth the idea of gynocriticism and gynocritics which focuses on the study of the female experience  Classifies gynocritics into four models: the biological, the linguistic, the psychoanalytic and the cultural models.  WHO AM I?

 Is Christian Bale’s stepmother  Was deeply involved in the women’s liberation movement and founded the National Women’s Political Caucus  Has written many prolific books and articles with a feminist approach including Revolution from Within and Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions  WHO AM I?

 Was Mary Shelly’s mother  Wrote The Vindication of the Rights of Woman in an attempt to create equality between men and women in the academic setting  One of the founding mothers of the feminist movement as a member of the first wave of feminism  WHO AM I?