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Feminist Literary Theory
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What is Feminism? In the simplest terms, feminism is the theory that women and men should be equal politically, economically, and socially.
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Feminist Issues
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Gender as a Social Construction
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Did you know: Pink was first a colour for BOYS Men wore heels first (red ones at that)!
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Separate Spheres Public Sphere Private Sphere
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Division of Labour 1930s Women
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So What is Feminist Literary Theory?
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Patriarchal Society
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The Male Canon
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Women Subordinate to Men You Tube Clip
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Misogynistic View of Women
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“Evil” Eve
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Feminists saw that… While many male authors, such as Dickens Wordsworth, Hawthorne, and Thoreau were “canonized” very few women were seen this way
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“GEORGE ELIOT” Mary Ann (Marian) Evans b.1819 – d. 1880 Adam Bede, 1859 The Mill on the Floss, 1860 Silas Marner, 1861 Romola, 1863 Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866 Middlemarch, 1871-72 Daniel Deronda, 1876
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And that… Female scholars like Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beavoir were ignored
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How Have Feminist Literary Critics Responded?
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Changing the Canon
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Gendered Communication vs the Gendered Language
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Important Figures in Feminist Literary Theory
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Kate Millet “However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.” -- Sexual Politics (1969)
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Elaine Showalter Gynocriticism is a form of criticism that constructs "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature, to develop new models based on the study of female experience, rather than to adapt male models and theories" -- Toward a Feminist Poetics (1979)
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Germaine Greer “Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?” -- The Female Eunuch (1970)
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Important Feminist Novelists and Poets
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Virginia Woolf Important Works Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando: A Biography The Waves Between the Acts A Room with a View
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Margaret Atwood Important Works The Edible Woman Surfacing Life Before Man The Handmaid's Tale Cat's Eye The Robber Bride The Blind Assassin
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Anne Sexton Important Works To Bedlam and Part Way Back All My Pretty Ones Live or Die Love Poems Transformations The Book of Folly The Death Notebooks
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Sylvia Plath Important Works The Colossus Cut Ariel Crossing the Water Winter Trees Daddy Lady Lazarus The Bell Jar
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Important Feminist Terms
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Gynocriticism
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Gender vs. Sex
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Essentialism
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Patriarchy
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Objectification
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Infantilization
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Subordination
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Misogyny
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The “Other” We create the “other” by marginalizing a group, characterizing its differences as flaws, thus making it inferior. Women have frequently been cast as the “other” throughout history.
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Phallocentrism
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Questions Feminist Critics Ask about Literature
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Feminist Questions How are women’s lives portrayed in the work?
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Feminist Questions Do the women in the work accept or reject traditional gender roles?
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Feminist Questions Does the work challenge or affirm traditional ideas about women?
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Feminist Questions What are the relationships between men and women?
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Feminist Questions To what extent are female figures infantilized?
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Feminist Questions Does the work reinforce or undermine patriarchal ideology?
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Feminist Questions How much personal freedom do women experience in this work ?
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Feminist Questions To what extent is a character’s life option constrained by gender?
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Feminist Questions Does the work offer the possibility of a sisterhood as a mode of resisting patriarchy?
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