Among the female writers who devoted their work to defying their views about the woman's place in society were Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin. ... Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) carried ou the same theme of struggling women in a dominant/submissive relationship. ... Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman had very different views on women's sexuality. ... For Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, art is work because it is both difficult labor and "one's true vocation," the idea that was not very common among nineteenth century women. ... Kate Chopin ...

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