How Hannah Foster uses the Coquette to Identify Injustices Towards Women in Society in Support of a Woman’s Social Revolution In writing, The Coquette, Hannah Foster encouraged women to join together in a revolution against society. Foster believed that, with the gender-biased value-system inherent in early American culture, no woman could freely pursue the life that she desired. Her book made people, particularly women, aware of this oppression that they had faced for so …showed first 75 words of 1553 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1553 total…rights of women in society. Her novel helped to open the eyes of many women during that era as to the oppression that was being put upon them, and showed them social and moral boundaries, which inhibited them from reaching goals, that they otherwise could have attained. It was a revolutionary novel that it helped encourage a women to further their rights in society in order to maintain their respect, honor, and pride. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**