ABSTRACT
This chapter involves a close study of white middle-class women vis-à-vis the socio-cultural milieu in America from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Ernest Hemingway’s dually gendered parents and Grace Hemingway’s practice of androgyny and gender-blurring in bringing up her children have been closely critiqued. Part of the time bracket discussed coincides with the First and the Second Waves of Feminism. A section of this chapter has been devoted to twentieth-century feminists who came close to their goals and objectives, bringing for women liberty, equality, educational reforms, legal rights and financial and sexual independence.
