The Female Agency

At "Angelica and Cultural Naturalization Politics" by Nancy Armstrong, she discusses women's agencies and their formation in novels. Female agents are ways for women to resist male dominant social structure, and on the contrary, femininity has changed and formed a composition of literature. Two examples of female agents in literature are Daniel Defoe's "Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" and Samuel Richardson's "Pamela or Virtue Reward". Both novels have heroines, they are very different, but both show important elements of female agents.

Throughout the novel, female agents are an important topic of Cather'sMyÁntonia's search, as many female characters show dominance in their small community regarding family management, finance, and personal life options. This type of personal agent has particular influence due to the typical restrictive traditional idea related to the town described in the novel, especially the 19th century town such as women. Interestingly, the women depicted as playing a role as an agent in the novel are immigrant girls, in particular Antonia and Rena.

The metaphor of female agents and voices is a contradiction, not one-way force and authority. Her novel is not central, it becomes a women's spokesperson for its contextualization. ("Danticat and Caribbean Women Writers" 42) I remember thinking about how you look like a mother while weaving her hair. Your mother looks like your grandma and her grandmother. When you write it is like knitting your hair. Take some rough stocks that are outrageous and try to combine them. In our world, when you write, you are a politician, we know what will happen to politicians. (219 to 221)

An article entitled "The importance of female agents in gospel heretics", including memoirs of female missionaries published in 1841. As a kind article. Illustration Baptist W. Noel, probably the founder of FES, says: "Christianity is the only remedy that suffers in Pagan and Muhammad countries, understanding your own gender