Dr. Leena Pundir Assistant Professor, GRD Girls’ Degree College, Dehra Dun, India. Atwood’s novels deal with women characters struggling to define their identities in an environment that is either hostile to, or at least not in harmony with their sensibility. Her heroines can be categorized into certain stages of depending upon their personality traits and…
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Metaphor of Body in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
Shamsoddin Royanian & Zeinab Yazdani The Edible Woman was written in the 1960s, when the society was dominated by men. In this period of time, post-war feminist movements were trying to conquer the patriarchal model of family and femininity and to distance themselves from the position of consumers. Traditional gender roles such as mother, wife,…