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The Women's Liberation Movement has brought about in women an increased awareness of and pride in their identities as women. In literature, its impact has been to greatly increase the number of women writers. Short story anthologies of recent works show much greater representation of women writers. And Women's Lib decreed a new approach to writing: no longer was it the chief goal of a woman writer to write like a man. Much of the new work is clearly revisionist, written with the intent of destroying the centuries of feminine stereotypes perpetrated by male authors. Women deliberately aim at revealing the female sexual and social experience in America from their own point of view. Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, and Alix Shulman's Memoir's of an ExProm Queen, are examples. |
