Feminism in Rachel Crothers’ Major Works
Keywords:
Moral Hygiene, New Woman, MarriageAbstract
Rachel Crothers was the most successful American woman playwright in the early part of twentieth century. Crothers represents and celebrates the New woman. Criss Cross, The Three of Us, A Man’s World, Young Wisdom, Ourselves, A Little Journey, He and She, Nice People, Mary the Third, Expressing Willie, Let Us Be Gay, As Husband Go, When Ladies Meet and Susan and God, these plays deal with some of the problems of women during her period and are remarkable plays. Crothers works are the embodiment of new woman and it shows her interest in the character of New Woman and some of the issues of social and moral hygiene with which many woman reforms allied themselves. Crothers plays also continuously reflected the need of woman’s economic independence, so that she was no longer demeaned by marriage as her only form of financial security and so that she could regard herself as a dignified, adult and purposeful member of the social world.
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