SOURCE: "The Borders of Ethical, Erotic, and Artistic Possibilities in Little Women," in Signs, Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring, 1990, pp. 562-85.
In the following essay, Murphy examines critical debate surrounding the question of Little Women's status as a feminist novel. She argues that the power of the work is largely derived "from the contradictions and tensions it exposes and from the pattern it establishes of subversive feminist exploration colliding repeatedly against patriarchal repression. "
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