It tackles the tensions of female independence in a patriarchal society.

Its theme is one of female independence.

Wesley Girls was set up to encourage female independence, critical reasoning and a commitment to social justice.

Not all feminists believed in complete female independence from the strongholds of the normative female life.

It rooted its beliefs in complete female independence from the norms of society.

Did such depictions point to enlightened concepts of female independence among the city's ruling mercantile elite?

By 1936, the college catalog spoke in far more emphatic terms of female independence.

Although she was the embodiment of female independence in almost every way, she initially opposed suffrage.

This symbol of female independence generally went for men who were alcoholic, womanizing, married or bisexual.

"The men either succeed or fail in coping with female independence and female sexuality."