The Role of Women

Evaluate Elizabeth Brady’s contention in “Towards a Happier History” (1975) that Margaret Atwood examines several “different female roles” in The Edible Woman (e.g., “woman as underpaid worker divorced from production,” woman “as a lover [or] mistress alienated from her emotions,” woman “as mother [or] wife whose capacity for maternity subverts everything that falls outside her reproductive function,” etc.), only to reject “each of these roles … systematically” (30).