Even the Queen Lusts, for A Good Man is Hard to Find

Are there any female characters in the work that you identify with?
I probably most closely find a relative connection with the main character in Lust. Through out history, women have been told that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. They were forced to remain "pure" or "untouched" in order to be considered desirable. Even if a woman was robbed of her virtue she was the one punished most harshly. Even today if a woman decides she loves her body and wants to wear something that she feels sexy society calls her a slut and tells her that if she wants respect she has to dress less provocatively. People forget that we were all born naked. To show off skin is normal. It should be celebrated that people have released enough insecurities to allow themselves to embrace their sexuality. She and I share the same idea that liking and having regular sex shouldn't result in a "He's the man" for one sex and a "What a total slut" for the other.How are relationships between men and women (or characters assuming male/female roles) portrayed in the story? 
In the story A Good Man is Hard To Find, the men are seen as the ones in total control. While driving down to Florida it is the father figure that is calling the shots on everything from the routes they take to the stops they make. When they meet The Misfit, the first thing he does is take away the head of control to show how chaotic the following events would be. He proved that this was his show and that there would be no competition at all. Both men commanded respect. Both men had to have their way.What are the power relationships between men and women in the text?
I think the best story that represents the power of relationships between men and women would be Even the Queen. Although there is only one male figure in the story, the women talk about the struggles they faced to manipulate their bodies. On one had you have the cyclists, who feel like the miracle period-stopping drug was put in place by men as away to take away a woman's femininity. They failed to realize that it was feminists who had to lobby and fight for the drug to be FDA approved.All of the women in the story were in positions of power. The grandmother was a treaty negotiator for the UN. The mother was a judge. The sister was a mother. All of them had strong roles that are of the utmost importance in society. The main male figure, the mother's secretary, was forced to listen in to get a male perspective, and as a male I could understand the discomfort he experienced while listening to the women speak about menstruating.