Gender Roles in Margaret Atwood's Short Fiction "Stone Mattress" : Grin Verlag : 9783346779939 : 3346779939 : 29 Nov 2022 : Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Constance (Literaturwissenschaft), course: American Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis will be to analyze whether the development of gender roles can in fact be found in Atwood's newest short story collection "Stone Mattress", and if so, how that development unfolds in the writing. This paper will start with a definition of terms such as sex, gender and gender roles, which will aid in clarifying the meaning of those concepts and therefore simplify the following analysis. Furthermore, a historical overview over the women's movement in Canada shall distinguish the three waves of feminism and highlight the different aims of each wave, as well as the evolution of women's roles in their respective society. With the theoreti