Resumen de The lights and shadows of sisterhood: Revisiting Fay Weldon’s female friends (1974) in the fourth wave
- español
Dado que una de las características de la cuarta ola feminista parece ser la presencia del concepto de sororidad en la cultura popular, este artículo pretende explorar la representación literaria del mismo a través de la obra Female Friends (1974), escrita por Fay Weldon. Por un lado, se intentará señalar como Weldon, a pesar de reivindicar la posibilidad de la sororidad, desmantela algunas de las premisas subyacentes a la visión de la segunda ola. Además, el artículo argumenta que la novela aborda la importancia de la agencia individual de la mujer, un discurso especialmente presente en la tercera y cuarta ola, como paso imprescindible para el desarrollo de la sororidad.
- English
In this paper I am to revisit a classic of women’s writing, Fay Weldon’s Female Friends (1974), in light of the current feminist fourth wave, when the language of sisterhood seems to have been returned to popular discourse. My aim is to examine the complexities surrounding female relations in the novel. I argue that, although Weldon does advance the possibility of sisterhood, she also questions some of the premises that were underlying this term during the second wave. Furthermore, my contention is that the novel addresses the importance of women’s individual agency, a discourse of the third and fourth wave, as a necessary step towards the construction of sisterhood.
