Sisterhood as cultural difference in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses and Cristina Garcia's The Aguero Sisters.

From: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The women's movement is probably key historical event forcing a revision of the modern feminist family. In the 1970s, feminists promoted the metaphor of sisterhood as a challenge to patriarchy. The feminists' call for global sisterhood would create an alliance of women everywhere on the basis of the commonality of women and opposition to the patriarchal societies within which women live. In the United States, for instance, sisterhood has been used effectively to enlist the sympathies of women on behalf of a variety of reforming causes and enjoin women to activism. Throughout the ...

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