What obstacles for women writers, intellectuals, or artists does Adrienne Rich address in "When we Dead Awaken"? What remedies or reactions does she propose on behalf of women?

The main obstacle Rich sees for women writers, artists, and intellectuals in "When we Dead Awaken" is the tendency for women to want to please men, to look to see what men think of them, and to evaluate themselves by male standards. A primary problem is allowing themselves to be degraded by the way men have defined how they should live their lives.
Women need, Rich argues, to radically critique how they have been defined and depicted in literature, a form largely controlled and dominated by men. This would lead a reevaluation by women of how women imagine themselves. Women cannot truly be free and able to fulfill their potential until they find their own language and art in which to depict their experiences.
Rich says the way out is for women, through their art, to be willing to imagine alternatives to the current oppressive, patriarchal system.