Oates is quite a topic in herself.
She’s more or less readable, once you get past the part about her not living on this planet, and being insane.
Another example of a “brilliant” feminist, who, if male, would be delivering pizza

(Denise) If you see Oates as a “feminist,” you’ve simply got to read my essay “From Masochistic Provocation to Violent Retaliation: The Rape Victim in Joyce Carol Oates.” She has often been flagrant in her depiction of the female victim who was “asking for it.”