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Women Writers In Revolution: Feminism In Germaine De Staël And Ding Ling, Sara Powell
Women Writers In Revolution: Feminism In Germaine De Staël And Ding Ling, Sara Powell
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In this essay, the concern is feminism in the writings of the two revolutionary women, Germaine de Stael, who lived and wrote during the French revolutionary era, and Ding Ling, who lived and wrote during the Chinese Communist revolutionary era. The main theme of the essay is to determine whether the feminism in their work is of a similar nature despite the vast differences in the times and places in which they each lived. Concomitantly, the theme is also an attempt to discover through such similarities if feminism is of a universal nature. Through biographical sketches and analysis of selected …