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Love that. The first book (at least the first I read) to empower a woman in the end is Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House." Late 1800's. It was rather scandalous and unheard of at the time for a woman (Norma) to walk away from being treated as a proverbial doll, rather than an equal in her marriage. Tolstoy also used un-empowering colloquialisms for Anna. It was common in Russia to use childlike nicknames for female adult characters.
Patriarchy is a powerful thing. It hurt all the characters in that play. Ibsen was a master writer.
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Mar 22, 2019 12:42PM
Love that. The first book (at least the first I read) to empower a woman in the end is Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House." Late 1800's. It was rather scandalous and unheard of at the time for a woman (Norma) to walk away from being treated as a proverbial doll, rather than an equal in her marriage. Tolstoy also used un-empowering colloquialisms for Anna. It was common in Russia to use childlike nicknames for female adult characters.
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Patriarchy is a powerful thing. It hurt all the characters in that play. Ibsen was a master writer.
