(Eco)Feminism in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables

Abstract

The scope of this dissertation will substantially entail identifying the American twentieth-century patriarchal social conventions that imprisoned women within a multitude of gender biased roles and spheres that hindered their pursuit of a subjective self in addition to unraveling the detrimental ramifications which those unilateral handlings generated that will be demonstrated through women’s stratified education and misdiagnosed as well as mistreated mental health’s tribulations. Thus, relying on a historical and feminist approach, the tenets of Feminism and Ecofeminism in the classical novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery will be elucidated so as to show the mediums by which those women managed to unchain themselves from the restrictions that have been vaulting their potential by shedding light on some of the social inequalities that had to be demolished, simultaneously tracing the patriarchal dominion and its rapid expansion on account of the industrialization which brought about the environmental decline. Seamlessly, light will be shed on how women identified themselves with its objectifying and exploitation together with how they deemed it their tonic for healing.