The Analytical Reading Discourse of Liberal Feminism in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other through Black Women in Different Generations

Abstract

The postmodern perspective of liberal feminism relates to women’s empowerment. The aim of the study abbreviates liberal feminism in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other. She is a famous postmodern writer. The term liberal feminism explicates women’s sufferings and their empowerment. This study considers four liberal thinkers. They are John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Martha Nussbaum and Susan Moller Okin. The present study focuses on the theory of liberal feminism. The four liberal feminism thinkers proposed four different liberal feminism aspects in different circumstances. Those ideas are explained in the methodology part. This part splits into four ideas according to liberal feminism thinkers. In this study, the authors have investigated liberal feminism and its aspects in the select text of Evaristo. The results of the study are evaluated with other studies under the postmodern tendency of liberal feminism.