One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has pub...
The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the C...
Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's fict...
The Edible Woman, a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance, is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world suddenly slips strangely out of focus. Following her...
The Tate Gallery's retrospective of the work of Willem de Kooning, the last surviving Abstract Expressionist painter, is no ordinary art exhibition. It is a canonisation, with the most senior of its organisers, David Sylvester, playing the part of the Pope. De Kooning, to...
Feminist Classics THE EDIBLE WOMAN Margaret Atwood Dealing with a wide range of themes-including consumption, the glass ceiling, marriage and children-The Edible Woman is indisputably Margaret Atwood's most feminist-minded book. Published in 1969 (but written in 1964), The Edible Woman delineates the...
Margaret Atwood's first novel, The Edible Women, published in 1970, explored issues of oppression, self-identity and power, as it relates to the broader social content of contemporary urban life and the sexual politics involved. She further explores those issues in "Rape Fantasies" first published in Canada in 1979 in her book The Dancing Girls and Other Stories. "Rape Fantasies" has become one of Atwood's best known works as it explores the issues of power between men and women, highlig
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