Leslie Sheryll explores female identity in a male-centric society often incorporating nineteenth-century history, symbolism, botany, an infusion of fantasy, along with personal experience. Using the The nineteenth-century as an beginning point due to the Industrial Revolution, scientific discoveries, Darwinism, the invention of the photograph, and the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Sheryll explores how women were thought to be inferior to men. Men and women lived in separate “spheres”. This delineation of gender roles in society created the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage Movement; sadly, many of those same beliefs still continue to affect women’s lives to this day. Because many of the issues during the 19th-century that stood in the way of total equality between men and women still exists today, Sheryll marches on proving it is important to know our history, and what these women fought for especially now when our rights are being stripped away.
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