Critical theory Flashcards
‘Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns that she is worth less.’ What poem does this relate to?
History
‘Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns that she is worth less.’ Who said it?
Sadker
What did Mary Wollstonecraft think about women?
Considered men to be the ideal they aspired too.
What did Beauvoir say about Mary Wollstonecraft’s view?
‘It limited women’s success as they were always outsiders attempting to emulate ‘normality.’
‘History is written by the victors’ Who said it?
Churchill
‘There is still something uncomfortable for a woman about being called loud’ Who said it?
Groskop
‘We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need’ What poem does it relate to?
The diet
‘There is still something uncomfortable for a woman about being called loud’ What poem does it relate to?
Loud
‘We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need’ Who said it?
Hornbacher
Who said in feminine gospels ‘Duffy gives voice to the voiceless’?
Tisha
‘alters power relationships by making women both the subject and object of love poems,’ Who said this?
Boland
What does Jones say about feminine gospels?
‘Moves beyond ‘A straightforward feminist poetry’ and shows the difficulty that patriarchy presents to both men and women’
What does Mendelsohn say the two main themes of the poem are?
‘Fulfilled dreams’ and ‘adult awareness of the consequences’
