![]() ![]() Other than these few characters, women do not grace the novella with much of a presence. Jekyll, a prostitute outside on the streets, or the maid that witnesses Mr. The lack of women within this text is evident–the role of women is to simply be a maid of Dr. One example would be Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Either way, many of the famous stories to come out of this period did not feature women and were written by men for men. Perhaps this is because women had a larger societal role to play besides spending their leisure time writing–in fact, women did not have leisure time even in the upper class. Being oppressed as ever, women were not only still inferior in more ways than one, but were absent from the pages of literary texts and bookshelves among all classes. Welcome to the Victorian era: there are horse drawn carriages, exponential growth in industry and science, and, most importantly, men continue to rank as the superior gender simply because of women lacking a certain genital. Stevenson the Feminist: Flipped Gender Roles in Dr. ![]()
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