Gender Differentiation and Gender Hierarchy in C. S. Lewis

Name

Alicia D. Burrus, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Publication Date

4-6-2014

Major

English (B.A.)

Document Type and Release Option

Thesis (open access)

Faculty Mentor

Dr. Hemchand Gossai

Abstract

This thesis explores the evidence of sexism in the literary works of C. S. Lewis. Lewis’s relationships with women in his personal life were often estranged, and his works frequently display a predominant view of women as inferior. Each of Lewis’s major fictional works shows evidence of sexism, though such evidence lessens in frequency and prominence with each subsequent work. Lewis’s opinion and portrayal of women did change with his marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham, though his fiction never achieved a complete lack of prejudice against women.

Recommended Citation

Burrus, Alicia D., "Gender Differentiation and Gender Hierarchy in C. S. Lewis" (2014). Honors College Theses. 14.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/honors-theses/14