Feminism

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Ecriture Feminine

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Feminine writing; not all feminists believe there is a feminine writing

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Feminism

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Feminist criticism examines the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women

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Gynocriticism

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Approaches the attempt to develop feminine criticism?

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Biological essentialism

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Belief in inborn inferiority of women

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Premises of Feminine Theory

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Women are oppressed by patriarchy; western civilization is deeply rooted in patriarchal ideology; woman is other: objectified and marginalized; gender is socially constructed and Gender issues;

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Ultimate goal of Feminist Theory

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Change the world by promoting women’s equality

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What Feminist critics do

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Examine the texts that make up the canon; examine how women are portrayed in lit; observe power roles; examine the language of texts and a Female language; gender versus sex; female and male identity; death of the author; point out the bias that provides the foundation for the most common interpretation

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Essentialism

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Is there certain essential traits in each group?

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Behaviors

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Natural or socially constructed??

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Gynotexts

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Books by women

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Feminism 1960s

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Didn’t start here; but “feminist literary criticism of today is the direct product of the women’s movement of the 1960s.”

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feminist

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Political position

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Female

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Matter of biology

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Feminine

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Set of culturally defined characteristics

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Patriarchy

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Cultural mindset with perpetuated sexual inequality

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1980s

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Became more eclectic; switched focus from attacking male versions of the word to exploring nature of female world and outlook and reconstructing lost or suppressed records of female experience; new canon of women’s writing

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Paradox

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Appear contradictory but it’s not

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Ambiguity

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Two or more meanings or interpretations

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Feminism and construction

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Argues against construction because it favors patriarchy and limits/disempowers women

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Discourse

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Groups of statements that belong to a system of formation

• statements have boundaries/limits in discourse
• limits to knowledge
• each discourse has its limits

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Deconstruction

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Shows limits to discourse

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Gynocriticism -

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History, styles, themes, genres, and structures of writing by women; the psychodynamics of female creativity; the trajectory of the individual or collective female career; the evolution or laws of a female literary tradition

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Woman’s sentence

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Clauses are linked in looser sequences, rather than careful balanced and patterned as in prose