The Role Of Women In Geraldine Brooks Year Of Wonders

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Often in the course of human history, men have largely overshadowed women in terms of their everyday roles in society. While women were typically regarded with seemingly minor duties–caring for their children, cleaning their living spaces, and cooking meals to provide for their families, for example–men were involved in more active and respectable affairs, including, but not limited to, owning businesses, influencing political decisions, and possessing areas of land. Interestingly, one of Geraldine Brooks’s works, Year of Wonders, contradicts this common conception of the imbalance of power between the sexes. Following the life of housemaid Anna Frith, the novel details the unlikely strengths of women exhibited during a time of plague. Throughout