What role did women have in literature during the Heian period? This is closely related to The Tale of Genji, so if possible reference the essay to it. Please
talk about the following points:
1.How and what did they wrote about?
2.What literary genres did they use?
3.What function did they have in court?
4.What were the problems for some women in that period?
Some point you could bring up are: their appearance (white skin, black teeth, long hair to the ground, plucked eyebrows, coordinations outfits to reflect
personality as their face couldn’t be seen by men), the lack of socialisation, not leaving the house thus forming a hobby, the women writing being of higher
status, them writing in hiragana while men wrote in chinese, etc.
It has to be at least 3 pages long/ around 1200 words in Times New Roman font 12. More would be fine, but please not less.
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