Feminism is defined as support for the Equal Rights Amendment. Feminism is concerned with “equality and justice for all women” and “seeks to eliminate systems of inequality and injustice” for all women (Shaw and Lee 10). The Equal Rights Amendment was introduced to Congress in 1923 due to the failure to reference women and citizenship in the Fourteenth Amendment. If the Equal Rights Amendment passed, women would have the same rights as men. Furthermore, women would not be separated or singled out from other men. In the book Cat's Eye, written by Margaret Atwood, Elaine Risley, who is the protagonist of the book, is an artist who lives from World War II until the end of the 1980s and participates in the modern art movement. Due to childhood bullying and victimization by girls her age, Elaine's adult life is different from that of others. In Cat's Eye, Elaine finds her identity by willingly going back in time and accepting the past, along with the people, to embrace the women she was and is. Elaine is an independent artist. This independence ultimately contributes to the successes Elaine achieves as a painter. Causes Elaine difficulty interacting and forming relationships with other women. Despite what she believes, Elaine's symbolization of her isolated experiences in each of her paintings speaks to other women. Her artistic career demonstrates that, through art, artists can open up and be creative and create opportunities for themselves and other women. At the beginning of Cat's Eye, Elaine returns to her former hometown of Toronto, Canada, after being called for a retrospective exhibition. of his works of art. According to viewers, the paintings of Elaine she created are feminine, making Elaine a......middle of paper......, Alice. “What little girls are made of.” The New York Times. Np, 5 February 1989.Web.Osborne, Carol. “Constructing the Self Through Memory: Cat's Eye as a Novel of Female Development.” Frontiers 14.3 (1994):95. ProQuest. Web.Richelle, Lorren. "The Girl with Stories: Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye." The Girl with Stories: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. BlogSpot, May 16, 2011. Web.Sharpe, Martha. “Margaret Atwood and Julia Kristeva: Space-Time, the Dissident Female Artist, and the Search for Female Solidarity in Cat’s Eye.” Essays on Canadian Writing.50(1993): 174-189. ProQuest. Web.Shaw, Susan M., and Janet Lee. Women's voices, feminist visions: classic and contemporary readings. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Print.Vickroy, Laurie. “In Search of Symbolic Immortality: Visualizing Trauma in Cat’s Eye.” Mosaic[Winnipeg] 38.2 (2005): 129+. Academic OneFile. Net.