How did postwar women poets gain greater recognition in French-language Belgian literature?

In the context of French-language Belgian literature, the recognition of women poets in the postwar period was significantly bolstered by the contributions of specific writers who helped to legitimate the genre for female authors.

Poets such as Liliane Wouters, Lucienne Desnoues, Jeanine Moulin, and Andr\u00e9e Sodenkamp were instrumental in this process, helping to establish a stronger presence for women within the poetic landscape of the time. Their work emerged during an era initially dominated by a Neoclassical tendency, where many poets reverted to regular metrical forms to explore eternal themes.1

While these women poets were pivotal in gaining recognition for their craft, other female writers of the same period, such as Dominique Rolin, Jacqueline Harpman, Maud Fr\u00e8re, and Louis Dubrau, were simultaneously gaining prominence in prose, focusing primarily on the complexities of personal relationships.1