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A 7 page paper which critically examines how these stories represent Chopin’s efforts to reflect her own life in her art, how they are innovative feminist critiques (such as gender stereotypes and oppression) of the social conventions that were defined and maintained by the American patriarchy. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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patriarchy in which the white, affluent male resided atop the socioeconomic ladder, while women and people of race languished at the bottom, having no status of their own. This
was particularly evident in the American South, where Kate Chopin called home. Surprisingly, the Civil War defeat had little impact upon the patriarchal plantation society, and this was particularly
true of Chopins home state of Louisiana, which was also infused with the chauvinistic and bigoted attitudes of the local Creoles, along with those the French aristocrats brought with them
when they settled there. While it was easy to decry the oppression and injustice of slavery, it was easier to turn a blind eye toward Caucasian women who were
not only similarly mistreated, but in ways that were regarded as socially permissible. The popular Romantic literature of the times represented prejudicial gender attitudes and perpetuated stereotypes - the
tales of women who were only complete if they married well and had children, preferably sons. Kate Chopin had been one of those well-bred and well-married genteel Southern women
until her husband Oscar died suddenly, leaving her with six children to support. As a result of her husbands death, Chopin felt a sense of liberation she had never
known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate about. Her life experiences would be her art, and would represent her purpose -
to protest against the social convention which oppressed the many women who were not "fortunate" enough to have fate intervene and set them free. It is recommended that the student
who is writing about this topic consider how literature was the only type of free expression that was able to women during the nineteenth century. The subject of miscegenation,
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