I don’t want to be held back because I am a woman’…and I always want to reply… ‘what do you think feminism is, other than that?’” (p. Faith, when speaking to a group of college students, including Greer, offers the following take: “I meet young women who say, ‘I’m not a feminist, …’By which they mean, ‘I don’t call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationship with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. There are many conceptions of feminism presented throughout the novel. Her life is forever changed when she meets Faith Frank, an icon in the women’s movement who becomes her role model despite their 40-year age difference.Īt the core of the book is feminism, both directly through the jobs and personas of the main characters and indirectly through the actions and discussions that occur. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer follows the life and relationships of Greer Kadetsky, from her bookish, uncertain teenage years to precocious, forward-thinking adulthood.
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