Postmodern Feminism in the Fiction of Audrey Thomas

The cleavage between women’s traditional domestic situations and their more emancipated social positions has opened a new realm in literature. As a result love and work, intimacy and power, family and career are dominant themes in fiction written by women. Audrey Thomas the famous Canadian novelist works to advance women’s knowledge of themselves. She wants to demonstrate "the terrible gap between men and women" and "to give women a sense of their bodies." She documents the strictures on women’s lives and attempts to articulate this experience in women’s own words without positing alternate worlds. It is against this background that the book seeks to examine the novels Audrey Thomas from a postmodern feminist perspective to show that her protagonists confront all the adversities with courage and fortitude. They are involved in a grim struggle to attain "Freedom and full human status after millennia of deprivation and oppression.