When Oprah Winfrey appeared at the Oscars this month wearing a tie, a historically masculine accessory that women have been enthusiastically co-opting, a subtle yet meaningful Rubicon was crossed.

But the line about the 1830s has raised a lot of eyebrows especially among Black people, who pointed out that slavery was still legal during that time. Women also didn't have the right to vote and ...

In short, women’s rights were reduced upon marriage in the 1830s, but a wife was never considered property herself. Perhaps I have taken Swift’s lyrics too literally. If the line is a metaphor ...

[2] The edited volume intends to display and analyse the versatility of the genres in which woman writers were seeking the ways to express themselves and present their development in the years 1770s ...