![]() ![]() The Edible Woman was published at the same time that feminism was experiencing a renewed popularity among political movements. ![]() In the essay, "Reconstructing Margaret Atwood's Protagonists," Patricia Goldblatt states that "Atwood creates situations in which women, burdened by the rules and inequalities of their societies, discover that they must reconstruct braver, self-reliant personae in order to survive." At the end of The Edible Woman, Marian partially reconstructs that new persona, or concept of self, through a renewed relationship to food. The female protagonist, Marian McAlpin, struggles between the role that society has imposed upon her and her personal definition of self and food becomes the symbol of that struggle and her eventual rebellion. ![]() It is through food and eating that Atwood discusses a young woman's rebellion against a modern, male-dominated world. Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman is about women and their relationships to men, to society, and to food and eating. ![]()
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