T. V. Reed, “The Poetical is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women’s Rights”

No social movement in the past fifty years has had a greater cultural impact than the women’s movement, which reemerged in the 1960s and has grown in multifaceted ways into the present. The tremendous impact of feminism in everyday life includes, but extends far beyond, changes in laws legislation, and political institutions. The texture of the life of every single person living in the United States was changed by the new feminism. . . .