The essays that comprise the text were all written during the second-wave feminist movement that took place in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. How might the analysis of any of the novels discussed change if examined through the lens of a first-wave or third-wave feminist?

George Eliot found the Romantic movement particularly dangerous to women. What elements of Romanticism benefit men more than women, and why might Eliot have found this imbalance so perilous?

Some feminists find that scholarly interpretations of the Bible reveal a sexist bent to Christianity, and yet others insist that gender equality is fundamental to the Christian belief system. Which point of view is correct, and why?