Miss Shakespeare

Why is there no female Shakespeare?

• The Woman Writer and the Proper Lady
• Women writers --> inappropriate
• Women who did write were seen as whores who simply wanted to be apart of a profession--a world--that belonged solely to men
• Is it important to write like a feminist, according to Woolf?
  
• Men are writing "like men" because of the women's movement The normal is not there until the "abnormal." There is no white without black. There is no straight without gay. There is no man without woman (remember the one-sex model?)and being self-conscious about their maleness (this category, this identity) produces poor writing
• One must be free of anger (feminist anger?) in order to create good writing; anyone who incorporates gender pride is going to lose their writing in defense of themselves