"During this time" does not count as hitting AO3 in your essay.
You need to be specific, and clear.
If you are writing about The Bloody Chamber, it was published in 1979, thus Carter was writing during the second wave of feminism.
The second wave of feminism:
Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world and beyond. In the United States, the movement lasted through the early 1980s. It later became a worldwide movement that was strong in Europe.
Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e., voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities. At a time when mainstream women were making job gains in the professions, the military, the media, and sports, second-wave feminism also drew attention to domestic violence and marital rape issues; establishment of rape crisis and battered women's shelters; and changes in custody and divorce law.
The political became personal. It was society's expected behaviours of gender roles that was questioned. Rather than focusing on 'big' political issues, such as women getting the vote, this wave of feminism highlighted the inequality of everyday life for women.
Carter:
Carter questions the stereotypical gender roles and plays with the reader's expectations of gender, too. Her writing reflects the context in the way that she questions the "latent content" of traditional fairy tales, and the characters' gender roles within them. She is questioning and transforming readers' understanding of well-known stories that have been told for centuries, by challenging and experimenting with expected character traits. Her characters are not fixed in their gender roles, but fluid. Just as Carter rewrites or recreates elements of previously accepted stories and the gender roles within them, gender roles were being questioned and rewritten in the wider context, too.
