![]() Since a comprehensive study of all aspects of feminism is beyond the scope of a single paper, the issue of gender is deliberately excluded. Our intention here is to examine briefly the political reading of Lawrence formulated by second-wave feminists, before proceeding to an assessment of the implications of Lawrence’s key ideas for the major concerns of a third-wave feminism. With the onset of the third-wave feminism, Lawrence’s assumptions were put to fresh scrutiny in terms of the now foregrounded issues of sexual difference, gender, the body, “ écriture féminine” and sexuality. ![]() 1A Lawrencian emphasis on the man-woman relationship and his “priest of love” image, built on the primacy of this relationship as argued by Mark Spilka (1955), caused Lawrence to come under the critical scrutiny of second-wave feminists in the late sixties and the early seventies of the last century. ![]()
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