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Kang, Oksun. “Women’s Writing and Their Cultural Subjection.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 36.4(2010): 1-16. Women writers’ writing on the fringe of society has historically signaled their entering into the public world of letters. When considering those days of radical zeitgeist, women’s writing created a new set of cultural values that unified the meaning of social, political, and economical meanings beyond literature. So, the issue of women’s subjection needs to focus on the social problems in relation to the integrated cultural effect. This paper examines the problem of women’s subordination in connection with the zeitgeist of the 1790’s, covering philosophical texts. My focus is the developing process of the women’s resistant writing based on the feminine education of Mary Wollstonecraft and the national spirit of Helen Maria Williams. Women’s writing in the 1790’s was an attempt to open the possibilities of cultural change by recognizing women’s public roles and resisting the social norm of women's inferiority. (Dongseo University)