It's normal to hate anything with reason. Personally, I've read Their Eyes Were Watching God,The Awakening, and other feminist novels. I enjoyed both of those novels.
The way I saw it, women were treated as inferior to men, thus a lot of them held some spite to the male race. I really don't believe that the books were bashing men however, but rather describing the situations of women.
Besides, in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Janie meets Teacake who treats her like a Queen and with respect. So there really isn't any bashing going on in there.
As for "The Awakening" well the main character was just glad that her husband died is all, but wouldn't you be to if you were in her shoes?
I don't view feminist novels as bashing men,I'm sure some do though. But I think that most feminist novels just describe the situations of women, and how inferior they were treated. It isn't an attack on the male race, it is a simple observation on the lives of women.
By the way, if you want to read a novel, or two, in which men aren't attacked, then read "A Room of One's Own" or, one of my favorite novels, "Herland."
I've never liked a single piece of feminist literature I've read
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It's normal to hate anything with reason. Personally, I've read Their Eyes Were Watching God,The Awakening, and other feminist novels. I enjoyed both of those novels.
The way I saw it, women were treated as inferior to men, thus a lot of them held some spite to the male race. I really don't believe that the books were bashing men however, but rather describing the situations of women.
Besides, in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Janie meets Teacake who treats her like a Queen and with respect. So there really isn't any bashing going on in there.
As for "The Awakening" well the main character was just glad that her husband died is all, but wouldn't you be to if you were in her shoes?
I don't view feminist novels as bashing men,I'm sure some do though. But I think that most feminist novels just describe the situations of women, and how inferior they were treated. It isn't an attack on the male race, it is a simple observation on the lives of women.
By the way, if you want to read a novel, or two, in which men aren't attacked, then read "A Room of One's Own" or, one of my favorite novels, "Herland."