Patriarchal Control and Women Empowerment: An Existential Feminist Analysis of Tara Westover’s Educated

The article examines Tara Westover’s memoir Educated in the thought of Simone de Beauvoir’s Existential Feminism. The memoir tells how Westover grew up as an isolated survivalist in a rural part of Idaho and then became one of the most highly educated professors at the Cambridge University. The study is qualitative in nature; data is gathered through close reading of the memoir. The analysis is…