The Edible Woman | Feminine, Female, Feminist: From The Edible Woman to The Female Body
In the following essay excerpt, Howells examines The Edible Woman within the context of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, finding many thematic similarities between the works but arguing that Atwood's novel greatly differs in its "dimensions of fantasy and metaphorical thinking."
In this chapter I shall trace Atwood's exploration of sexual Power Politics through social myths of femininity and representations of the female body in two texts which mark very...
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