by Dr. Vicky | Aug 16, 2022 | Education
The ultimate goal of any of these tools is to uncover and expose patriarchal underlying tensions within novels and interrogate the ways in which our basic literary assumptions about such novels are contingent on female subordination.
by Dr. Vicky | Aug 16, 2022 | Education
Feminist Criticism (1960s-present) Feminist criticism is concerned with “the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women” (Tyson 83).
by Dr. Vicky | Aug 16, 2022 | Education
Writing is an important tool for women to voice their experiences – of identity, sexuality, marriage, love, family, life. But often women find is hard to use traditional forms of writing and literary conventions to convey these personal experiences. Language has...
by Dr. Vicky | Aug 16, 2022 | Education
Feminist literary criticism recognizes that literature both reflects and shapes stereotypes and other cultural assumptions. Thus, feminist literary criticism examines how works of literature embody patriarchal attitudes or undercut them, sometimes both happening...
by Dr. Vicky | Aug 16, 2022 | Education
The onus of women’s literature, then, is to categorize and create an area of study for a group of people marginalized by history and to explore through their writing their lives as they were while occupying such a unique sociopolitical space within their...
by Dr. Vicky | Aug 16, 2022 | Education
Gender is of key importance in defining the power, privilege and possibilities that some people have and some people do not have in a given society. It affects progress towards equality and freedom from discrimination.