Feminist Short Stories

[ama_li]

Hi I'm looking for Feminist Short Stories from different cultures. Can you please help me to find them.
Thank you very much in advance. :hurray:

[TheFifthElement]

Angela Carter's short story collection The Bloody Chamber gives a female perspective on well known fables, fairy tales and stories such as Dracula, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast and the like. It's an excellent read too :)

[ama_li]

Wow thank you for the information

[kelby_lake]

The Yellow Wallpaper is a 19th century longish short story about a woman with post-depression who is locked up and slowly starts to go mad.

[Dirtbag]

Uncles by Margaret Atwood takes on a fairly modern feminist viewpoint. I think it's set in Canada or atleast in a similar country. It follows the story of a women being promoted through the workplace. Her relationships with men illustrate gender roles in a nice typically Atwood fashion. And by that I mean she besmirches our fine masculinity by creating male characters that act villainously. I read it in a collection of short stories she wrote called Wilderness Tips. A pretty strange book. Anyway, I think in Uncles, Atwood represents her take on feminism in an entertaining way.

[byquist]

George Sand's novella "Marianne." Like George Elliot, a woman author. What did these two see in the name George?

[janesmith]

Without doubt, you need to familiarise yourself with the work of the 19th century female writer George Egerton. I focused on some of her short stories for my BA dissertation- Fascinating!

[TheFifthElement]

You could also try Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed. It is a novel, but consists of three separate short stories. Definitely a feminist work, and very moving (and French!).

[Barbarous]

Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" delineates the struggle of an American mother during the 1950s, might be of interest!