Visions of The Daughters of Albion, raises sharply the question of Blake's attitude towards sexuality and women. This has divided critics.
Some see Oothoon, the heroine, as a strong female figure preaching freedom from slavery. Blake then seems to be on the side of the struggle against patriarchy and male domination.
But other critics stress the rage and jealousy of Oothoon's intended lover, Theotormon, after she has been raped, thus seeming to endorse a view of women as intended for male sexual gratification.
The poem is difficult to interpret consistently, perhaps because ideology, by which Blake's characters are often imprisoned, is ridden with contradiction, even when it is liberating.