On the Term „Sex Roles”

Abstract

let her develop as a writer, even if she has it (p. 52). Kathleen Fraser also helps us understand experience of woman poet in her essay On being a West Coast Woman Poet.22 Fraser grew up in west and then went off to highly polished surfaces and honed edges of New York City ... learn control myself. She explains that the main message she had received from men teachers in college was that poems were embarrassing in their directness and not formal enough. One man drew a wheel and lectured me about spokes and how they must connect rim. Some of my spokes were obviously missing (p. 3). Fraser's essay articulates conflict of woman poet who would express her own experience but knows that good poetry is defined by men-in this case by eastern critical establishment. This brief survey indicates that there is much work afoot in women's poetry. (And certainly there is even more since I wrote this review.) We are much closer an overall view of women's novelistic tradition than