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    Feminist Short Stories

    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.

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    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
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    Wow thank you for the information

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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!

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