Feminism and Feminine Culture in Modern Women Writers’ Works: With Special Reference to Anne Sexton and Audre Lorde

Abstract

This paper focuses on a developmental and comparative study of feminist concerns expressed through the poetry of the two female poets during contemporary feminist movement: Anne Sexton and Audre Lorde. Sexton and Lorde's background and their poetry within its historical, social and cultural context during feminist movement are investigated. Present paper examines how the selected modern women writers treat feminism and female identity in their works and how women writers’ movement, their techniques and thematic works attempt to help modern world to understand women's issues and feminine concepts. It is also proposed to study whether they are successful in transferring their senses, emotions, experiences and issues because they write about their same sex and are from women community. In conclusion, the results show that feminist trends in Lorde are much stronger than Sexton and Lorde can be called a feminist writer but not Sexton.