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Examples Of Misogyny In The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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Misogyny or just the age of time? That is the question that is often asked of Washington Irving and his writings. Misogyny is the dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.. I believe that Washington Irving’s works were a combination of the two. In his time of writing, women were in the background instead of being equal to men. If you were to assume that the stories were written in this day and age, you would assume that he is misogynistic.
In the story about Sleepy Hollow, a thrilling short story wrote in 1820, the men were the ones who were victimized by the headless horseman. In this story he makes art an issue of gender by representing the female place as an invasive male. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, there is a
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