"In Western Europe and in America, the two world wars had a positive effect on the position of women. In the absence of men during the wars, women assumed many of the jobs in agriculture and in industry. As Woolf predicted, the newly found financial independence of women gave them a sense of freedom and simulated their demands for legal and social equality"(Fiero 113) Women were becoming equal to men. Women were becoming stronger and …showed first 75 words of 496 total…

…showed last 75 words of 496 total…literature. The self-conscious poetry of Anne Sexton, Sonia Sanchez, and Adrienne Rich is representative of this phenomenon. In the visual arts, at least two generations of women have redefined traditional concepts of female identity: first, by celebrating womanhood itself, and, more recently, by attacking outworn stereotypes"(Feiro 125) For the most part, women have overcome oppression, though there are still people who believe that women are not equal, to the rest of them, women are equal.