Adrienne Rich was an accomplished poet that spoke up for the feminist's right movement in her many books of poetry and collections of prose. She published an essay in 1971 entitled When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision that addresses the issues of female literary and academic oppression. Rich argues that "Re-Vision  the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction  is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. …
