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T1 Feminism and misogyny in Sally Rooney’s novels
T2 Feminismo y misoginia en las novelas de Sally Rooney
A1 Barros del Río, María Amor
K1 Misogyny
K1 Feminism
K1 Sally Rooney
K1 Millennials
K1 Misoginia
K1 Feminismo
K1 Milenial
K1 Literatura irlandesa
K1 Irish literature
AB Irish author Sally Rooney has been named the first great millennial novelist. Her three novels so far, Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018) and Beautiful World Where Are You? (2021), which dwell around the intricacies of personal relationships among young men and women in contemporary Ireland, have received much acclaim. This article concentrates on Rooney’s most recent novel to examine the coexistence of feminist and sexist traits, and how they affect the performance of the female characters. Male behaviour and female reactions will be analysed to outline the paradoxical conducts of empowerment and subjection embedded within love relationships. The study suggests the coexistence of internalized misogyny and feminist discourses, a combination that causes negative effects upon the female characters. Finally, the article concludes that contemporary best-sellers such as Rooney epitomize and validate currents of popular feminism alongside with misogyny, and typify and perpetuate problematic role models for millennials.
PB Dykinson
SN 978-84-1122-640-0
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8802
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8802
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 09-may-2024