The last book I started reading was the view of the Beat Generation through the eyes of woman. The muses weren't just behind the scenes but stood for something maybe even more powerful than what the men stood for. With woman empowerment came the end of men chivalry but was it worth it? They drank smoked and wrote just as well as any of the men but weren't acknowledged to a degree. In Women of the Beat Generation by Brenda knight the reader gets a clear visual of the free spirit women were during this generation. Knight writes, "I knew woman living secret or double lives because love and sexual desire for another woman was anathema." (page 5) These woman stood for many things just as Kerouac and Ginsberg, the were great poets and should also get recognition for their free thinking.
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