The Lights and Shadows of Sisterhood: Revisiting Fay Weldon’s Female Friends (1974) in the Fourth Wave
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper I am to revisit a classic of women’s writing, Fay Weldon’s Female Friends (1974), in light of the current feminist fourth wave, when the language of sisterhood seems to have been returned to popular discourse. My aim is to examine the complexities surrounding female relations in the novel. I argue that, although Weldon does advance the possibility of sisterhood, she also questions some of the premises that were underlying this term during the second wave. Furthermore, my contention is that the novel addresses the importance of women’s individual agency, a discourse of the third and fourth wave, as a necessary step towards the construction of sisterhood.
Author: Teresa Martínez Quiles
Institution: University of Alicante
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3082579328