SOURCE: "Hens to Roosters: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Female Species," in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 10, No. 2, Autumn, 1982, pp. 173-84.
In the following essay, Cohen considers the role of female characters in Singer's fiction through analysis of Enemies and Shosha. Cohen concludes that Singer's fiction is not misogynistic, as some feminist critics claim, but often portrays women as powerful symbolic figures that force male protagonists into uncomfortable revelations about themselves and the world.
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