8a. Role of Women in Society, cont’d
- 2. Alternative explanation: That there is nothing special about the attention paid to women in these non-Western novels - it just seems that way because Western culture is so sexist that any serious attention to discrimination against women by male writers strikes us as unusual -- since, in our own culture, it is so unusual!
Whatever the reason -- the serious attention paid to women and to discrimination against women is a striking feature of much non-Western literature.