Mrs. Warren’s Profession | Concept of the New Woman
Perkins is a professor of American and English literature and film. In this essay, Perkins examines the concept of the ‘‘New Woman’’ in Shaw’s play.
At the close of the nineteenth century, feminist thinkers began to engage in a rigorous investigation of female identity as it related to all aspects of a woman’s life. Any woman who questioned traditional female roles was tagged a ‘‘New Woman,’’ a term attributed to novelist Sarah Grand, whose 1894 article in the North American Review identified an emergent group of women, influenced by J. S. Mill and other champions of individualism who supported and campaigned for women’s rights. A dialogue resulted among these women that incorporated radical as well as conservative...
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