I don’t understand Anne of Green Gables adaptations that are marketed as feminist adaptations, because like, everyone is already a feminist??
Anne is obviously, and Marilla says she always thought women should learn to make their own way, and Miss Stacey for obvious reasons, and Rachel Lynde is arguably the most feminist out of all of them.
Like she is pro women’s right to vote, and I don’t even know if Mathew and Marilla were that. And she’s chairwoman of the temperance society, and in those days, temperance wasn’t so much an anti alcohol movement, so much as it was a “stop men getting drunk and beating their wives” movement, which was definitely not not a feminist movement.
And they’re all pro women going to college
So what exactly about the other adaptations is more feminist than the source material?
Miss stacey does some corset slander? Don’t even get me started on how that makes no sense
I have long struggled with the notion of Anne being a feminist. I love and adore her but I also have a hard time seeing it. Would you mind sharing in what ways you view Anne as a feminist? I remember her not caring about women’s votes and being anti-modern medicine in the later books. Perhaps I am due a re-read.
