She gives up her secrets’ (Griffin 1994: 47). Only the mark of his shoes effaces the soil. In 1978, Susan Griffin wrote a work of feminist philosophy which situates woman at the centre of (or as) land and man as its conqueror: ‘Sea. Certainly the feminist utopian impulse of theġ970s and 1980s reveals a very different relationship between women and the environment than we find in Atwood's work. For Atwood, the version of feminism portrayed in much literature of the Second Wave (circa 1968-1990) idealizes women's sisterhood in a manner she finds politically suspect. Despite the gender politics that inform so much of Atwood’s writing, and despite the interest that feminist literary critics have taken consistently in Atwood’s work, she has persistently resisted self-definition as a feminist writer.
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