Linking Duffy & Donnelly

Global Issue Focus: Social perception of women’s beauty Literary work: Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy from ‘The World’s Wife’ collection, 1999 Non-literary work: Political cartoon by Liza Donnelly published in The New Yorker magazine. Duffy’s collection ‘The World’s Wife’ focuses on bringing overlooked female perspectives to light and plays with universal gender stereotypes. This collection uses renowned […]

‘The World’s Wife’ by Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘The World’s Wife’ is a collection of dramatic monologues which cleverly recontextualises renowned tales and legends in a way that both discloses overlooked female perspectives of love and relationships, as well as humorously challenges gender stereotypes which are largely prevalent in today’s society, despite being formed many years ago. Together, the poems serve […]