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1 Feminism, Feminist Theory, and Women Authors Through Literature
Reach Cambridge Explorer Program, 2017 Genevieve Zimantas

2 Feminism in Literature and Art Today

3 Feminism Then (First wave – early 20th century)

4 Feminist Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHPOLSywdi0

5 Some Important Feminist Writers (and the women we don’t read enough)

6 Virginia Woolf

7 Sylvia Plath

8 Googling Feminist Writers…

9 Tsitsi Dangarembga

10 Ama Ata Aidoo

11 Trinh Minh-ha

12 And so so many more!

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