Abstract
Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt; through analyses by Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Robins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman of the plots and ideologies that structure novels; up to Woolf, Olsen, and Rich with their nuanced essays about women in culture, feminist writers have long criticized the problematic and damaging nature of cultural scripts for women's life and art. And, having seen patriarchal culture as a problem, rather than a given, certain women writers have sought to transform cultural conventions and their links to social life. The literature of the women's movement is animated by this aim of cultural transformation. Women writers have found
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