Women Writers and Women’s Rights: The Denunciation of Women’s Conditions in the Texts of Mary Leman Grimstone and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Coral Gomez, Laura Valentina (2022) Women Writers and Women’s Rights: The Denunciation of Women’s Conditions in the Texts of Mary Leman Grimstone and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Lingue, letterature e culture moderne, 34 Ciclo. DOI 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/10328.
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Abstract

Through the analysis of the prose of two nineteenth-century women writers: the English Mary Leman Grimstone and the Cuban-Spanish Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, the present dissertation aims at unveiling the relationship between women’s writings and the struggle for the recognition of women’s rights in two different geopolitical locations. To do so, it weaves a Feminist Planetary Web between each writer and her context, as well as among both writers, finding points of connection and disconnection. It shows how women appropriated the pen in different geographical locations, exposing a particular female voice that denounced not only the oppression suffered by women, but also by other marginalized subjects. For each writer this dissertation exposes several macro-arguments present transversally in their work, like their critiques to the institution of marriage, the importance of proper education for women, the advocacy for religious tolerance, and the narrative construction of different male and female paradigms. The critiques to the institution of marriage is a point of connection between both authors. They also coincided in highlighting the importance of women’s right to access a proper education. Aside from these commonalities, this dissertation also analyses how Grimstone and Gómez de Avellaneda negotiated their position in the literary public realm, showing how it was precisely in this point that readers and critics can find noteworthy differences between them.

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Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Coral Gomez, Laura Valentina
Supervisore
Co-supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Ciclo
34
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Parole chiave
Mary Leman Grimstone; Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda; Feminism; Gender Studies; Women Writers; Women Rights; Christianity; Unitarianism; Postcolonial Studies; Slavery; Marriage; Women's Education; Intersectionality; Multipositionality.
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10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/10328
Data di discussione
7 Luglio 2022
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