During the latter half of the twentieth century, early feminist social and political struggles and endeavors had certainly advanced the democratic rights and freedoms of women in Europe and North America, but they had done so in the western philosophical tradition of the liberal humanism. Humanism basically referred to the idea that all human beings are the same; that they share the same values and importance; and should, in theory, have the same basic human rights. For European feminist thinkers however, liberal humanist thought had traditionally defined or explained women as Other, or...

Females comprising at least half of the humanity were ignored and kept silent until they were recognized by feminists, encompassing Woolf, Kristeva, Cixous. In the past, the writers as well as readers were considered men, so everything was seen from men's eye and they judged over everything based on their own criteria. Looking for sexual equality, as a cultural, social, economic, political movement, feminism tries to change the power relations between men and women, called patriarchy. This movement seeks to free itself from patriarchal notion by exposing cliches, stereotypes, and negative...

This phase is considered as the researchs conclusion in which the main chapters are summarized, the answers to the questions posed in the first chapter are reviewed and findings achieved in this research are emphasized and some subjects for further research are suggested. Hellman was the first woman dramatist to be admitted to the previously all male space of the canon of American dramatic literature and that on the basis of two major successes from the 1930s which remain to this day the best known of her eight original plays: The Childrens Hour (1934), which presented Hellman to theatre...