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For centuries, women have gone to extreme measures to please men. Women seek acceptance and respect from men. One method used by women to obtain this respect and acceptance is narcissism. Adrienne Rich’s essay “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision” as well as Susan Douglas’ essay “Narcissism as Liberation” discusses women’s narcissistic attempts to become liberated. Rich’s essay deals with woman writers and their attempts at becoming liberated while Douglas’ essay …

…tended to alienate one another, being accepted by man was more important than being respected by other women; “being envied, for example had become infinitely more important than be admired or respected” (Douglas 119). Women in seek of liberation might want follow the ways of Adrienne Rich and use Re-visioning, as “A radical critique of...how we live, how we’ve been living, how we have been led to imagine ourselves,” to become truly liberated (Rich 551).