Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. ... Writers and Advocates of Feminist Criticism Judith Fetterly's book, The Resisting Reader (1978) points out that women should resist the meanings (i.e. the visions of how women ought to behave) that male authors - or female authors who have inherited patriarchal values - bury in their books. ... In her book, Lé Deuxiéme Sexe (1949; The Second Sex)2, Simone de Beauvoir argued that associating men with humanity more generally (as many cultures do) relegates women to an inferior position in society. ... North American feminist critics of th...

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