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Feminism and Women of the Beat Generation

For many years, literature theorists have considered that women writers of the Beat generation were't worth mentioning. Being present and absent at the same time, these women remained invisible in popular reviews as well as in academic reviews in the Beat generation literature until nineties. Today, however, it`s crystal clear that the literature of the Beats, even with its distinct misogynistic features, has strongly influenced several generations of women writers and artists who have written and performed within the feminist frame. Here we can talk about women of the Beat generation who within a seemingly male group, as insiders, in the early sixties started expressing themselves, within feminist discourses, through which they sought to free women from the socially imposed roles. The main weapon of the Beat generation`s fight against globalization, conformism and class inequalities was the freedom of mind, and this particular mind of beatnik`s at its core, was used by women beat writers in order to question the social modal of gender and sex. By overtaking the spirit of defiance and resistance of the Beats, these authors assigned a new meaning to the term beat by breaking the mainly masculine definition of the Beat generation.

Beat Generation/beat-culture ; women Beat writers ; popular culture ; provocation with aesthetic effect ; protofeminism ; second-wave feminism

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