Writing Women's Lives
Word Count: 275 Writing Women's Lives The documentary, Writing Women's Lives , exemplifies all the experiences women writers draw from to create their works. Each of the women came from different backgrounds that lead to their works being simultaneously unique and relatable. This documentary also showed the direct effect of the feminist movement on art during this time. One can see the drastic shift from previous works by women before the feminist movement and the ones born out of feminism. This new age of writing means the reader must adapt the lens they read certain works through. Older pieces are now seen as feminist works, even though the values are not similar to the ones the author held. This brings into consideration a new question: should the pieces be used as feminist propaganda, or should they be read as the author intended? Basically, is the reader allowed to find extraneous meaning from these works? The answer depends on the reader. For younger readers, i