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Women Creating Culture: Sofonisba Anguissola, Mary Wollstonecraft and emily dickinson
Introduction
While the patriarchal heritage of the West commonly references the contributions of men to history and culture, the West would not be … whose Vindication of the Rights of Women in the 18th century opened the door for the 19th and 20th centuries’ women’s movements; and emily dickinson, whose poetry of the 19th century was lauded by second wave feminists such as Adrienne Rich, who identified dickinson as an important inspiration in her own work. These women helped shape but were also shaped by their cultures. This paper will explain … to men. As a result, the seeds of feminism were sewn—and they were not welcome seeds in the views of most men. By dickinson’s time, women who dared have a public life were seen as agitators in most cases—women like Angelina Weld, the abolitionist, and Sojourner Truth: ………
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