![]() To corral, a motley and uneasy sisterhood that feminism is often hard going and hard won, sabotaged from within as well as without that in the war between the sexes there are collaborators as well as enemies, spies, refugees, spectatorsĪnd conscientious objectors - all this has been brilliantly dramatized in Ms. Atwood's novels (although for "women," one might as well read "a medium-sized variety of people in general"). Probably it is the subject of women that has most completely dominated Ms. ![]() Atwood has gathered (not lumped) four very different women characters. And as with so many practitioners of identity politics, literary or otherwise, while one side of her banner defiantly exclaims "We Are!" the other side,Įqually defiant, admonishes "Don't Lump Us." In "The Robber Bride," Ms. OctoEvery Wife's Nightmare By LORRIE MOOREĪrgaret Atwood has always possessed a tribal bent: in both her fiction and her nonfiction she has described and transcribed the ceremonies andĮxperience of being a woman, or a Canadian, or a writer - or all three. ![]()
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