What does "practiced just as radical a form of sublimation" mean in this text?
Solution 1:
Sublimation in psychology is the ...
process of deflecting sexual instincts into acts of higher social valuation
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology))
Women writers, as their male heroes, were transforming their sexual drive into a social endeavour, however the rewards that society bestowed upon males, even within the context of fictional characters ("respectability, security, and performance"), eluded the women who created them.