The Company of Women (1980) is the story of five Catholic women in the early sixties who have met through a series of “working women’s“ retreats, and their devotion to one priest. Father Cyprian is a former “Paraclete” priest, who… Read More ›
women’s independence
Analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
The winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the subject of an Oscar-nominated film by Stephen Spielberg two years later, The Color Purple by Alice Walker is often associated with the struggle of black women to gain self-respect and independence…. Read More ›
Analysis of George Gissing’s The Odd Women
As did most novels by George Gissing, The Odd Women focused on working-class poor in an uncaring society. The novel opens with six happy sisters, living with their widower physician father. He believes that women should not have to worry… Read More ›
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