Feminist poets

An interesting fact I read today was that in the 70s there was not one actual case of women burning their bras - in was in fact a fallacy generated by the newspapers in order to sell more copies - it was also to try and denigrate the feminist movement.

Indeed. Anyway here are some links and suggestions of feminist poets...

Christina Rossetti
Background:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/christina-rossetti/11534.html


Links to her poetry:http://www.poetry-archive.com/r/rossetti_christina.html   - you may recognise 'Remember'

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - wrote poetry as well as the short novel 'The Yellow Paper' - A scary insight into the way they treated women with depression in the 1800s.

And of course - Margaret Atwood...
http://www.poemhunter.com/margaret-atwood/   - I particularly like 'You fit into me'

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

Sylvia Plath is similarly as brilliant - http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/

Not a poet but a feminist playwright - Muriel Spark
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/muriel-spark-two-plays/10697.html


And a fantastic video about advertising, women and sexism:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/equality-for-women/3516.html