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Feminist criticism: Women as contemporary critics

1986

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Salient Features of Feminist Literary Criticism

Shanlax International Journal of English, 2021

Feminist literary criticism as criticism schools is marked by gender, widespread gender awareness, and feminine consciousness is its elementary characteristics. This study introduces the different phases of Feminism through various insidious social and cultural mores. The main objective of this study to Criticism the Salient Features of Feminist Literary. The main content of this paper is divided into three aspects, the first, second, and third wave of feminism from the 19th century to date. Methodology Employed based on qualitative research. The secondary sources of this study are taken from various books, articles, diaries, proposals, official records, archives, Govt. Gazetteers, Manuals and sites, and so on.

Feminist Criticism: An Overview

When she was nineteen or so, Charlotte Brontë (1810-1855), who was already beginning to produces serious imaginative work, sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey (1774-1843), then the British Poet Laureate, a respected contemporary of COLERIDGE and WORDSWORTH. Southey wrote back, granting Brontë's talent, but stating quite baldly "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be."

Feminism and critical theory

Women's Studies International Quarterly, 1978

Synopsis--This is a taped transcript of a talk given from notes. I have edited lightly. I wanted to preserve the informality and the bravado. The detail of my present research concerns itself with what I propose here in tentative and broad outline.

The Theory of Feminism: Definition and Development

2010

During the last century, critics have felt the impact of feminist criticism which has flourished the field of literature by its combination with every other critical approach. So, this study aims at exploring the revision of the history of female experience with the great imaginative creation of Shakespeare and by female spectators, but before proceeding and as feminism begins with political agenda, it is worthier to cast lights on the development of feminism theoretically and practically so that the depiction can get a conspicuous framework and better understanding. Simply speaking, the term “feminism” is derived from the word “feminine” which is the opposite of the “masculine” that is, female versus male. Feminism, as a modern phenomenon, sails its way from the school of political reading of 1970s to reach the beach of criticism and to dig up the depths of the self; it can be defined as “the doctrine that favors more rights and activities for women in their economic, social, polit...

Feminine to Feminism

Nothing is more constant than change. Life, being a dynamic subject, is consistently witness to changes, as old theories periodically tend to get discarded and new ideas incessantly pop up. We are living in very interesting times. The ‘new woman’ is inclined to renounce the old realism. She does not want to acknowledge the existing proclamations. Rather, she is striving after that underlying truth which is behind the veiled norms and traditions. In Indian society, where Sita has been accepted as an ideal ‘role-model’ since the days of her inception as she has suffered incarnate and yet never protested, the modern Indian woman looks towards the history of west for a realistic option. She observes that queen Elizabeth was an outstanding woman, both in rank and establishment and manifested significant intellectual curiosity and aptitude for knowledge from an early age. But Roger Ascham gave an extraordinary compliment about the queen while describing her ardent love for learning and aesthetics and the best kind of literature that “Elizabeth had a brilliant brain that was as good as a man’s” (qtd. in King 66), which corroborates that even a queen was not respected as a ‘woman’ and being a woman became a disability for Elizabeth “that had to be suffered as best it could” (qtd. in King 66). Such cultural, economic and educational discriminations within patriarchal society “hindered or prevented women from realizing their productive and creative possibilities” (24) remarked Virginia Woolf, an important precursor in feminist criticism. She protested while submitting this acrid truth about women, “imaginatively she is of the highest importance. Practically, she is completely insignificant. . . ” (Woolf 26). This profound thought which challenged the derogatory stereotypes of women in literary works and condemned the prevailing concepts of gender discrimination was propagated by quintessential modern feminist approaches to literary criticism

Kadim Medeniyetlerden Günümüze Modern Feminist Kuramlar Bağlamında Kamusal ve Özel Alanda ‘Kadın’

OPUS Uluslararası Toplum Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019

Throughout the historical process, in many of the different civilizations, a gender-oriented approach, such as the lack of housing of women or girls in social life, has led to ideas that transform women into nothingness in everyday life. However, for the first time in the public sphere, women's influence in the social sphere with the realization of the industrial revolution did not prevent the woman from being placed in a secondary position. The feminist movement, which advocates the denied rights of women in male-dominated societies, fills an intellectually important gap in the social sphere. On the other hand, the common goal of the feminist movements that come together to prevent women from being pushed to the second plan within the social structure is to restore the honor and pride of the oppressed woman. Especially, even though the different feminist movements that emerged after the industrial revolution tried different ways in terms of practice and method, the goal they wanted to reach was to carry the power of the woman to the public sphere with her hand. This research focuses on women's participation in the public sphere as well as their private sphere, and examines the role of women in society in the context of feminist theories with historical and contemporary headings.