id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9390 Sandra Gilbert - Wikipedia .html text/html 2489 271 62 Where Bloom wonders how the male author can find a voice that is his own, Gilbert and Gubar – building on Virginia Woolf's analysis of the "difficulty...that they had no tradition behind them"[15] – emphasise the problem a woman writer may have in seeing herself as possessing a literary voice at all, given the absence of a maternal precursor.[16] Where Bloom finds aggression and competition between male literary figures in terms of self-consciously feeling influenced and desiring to be influential, the "anxiety of authorship" identifies a "secret sisterhood" of role models within the Western tradition who show that women can write,[14] the recuperation of the tradition of which becomes a feminist project.[17] However, these models too may be "infected" with a lack of confidence, and with internal contradiction of ambition, hampered by the culturally induced assumption of "the patriarchal authority of art."[18] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9390.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9390.txt