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Feminist literary criticism can be traced back to medieval times, with some arguing that Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath could be an example of early feminist literary critics. [2] Additionally, the period considered First wave feminism also contributed extensively to literature and women's presence within it.
Feminist children's literature is the writing of children's literature through a feminist lens. Children's literature and women's literature have many similarities. Both often deal with being weak and placed towards the bottom of a hierarchy. In this way feminist ideas are regularly found in the structure of children's literature. Feminist ...
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...
To help you better understand these terms, we sat down for a little Feminism 101 with IRL feminists and GLAAD Campus Ambassadors about why the feminist and women’s rights movement is so ...
Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War against Women, Andrea Dworkin (1997) Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy, Susan Hogan (1997) "Power, Resistance and Science: A Call for a Revitalized Feminist Psychology", Naomi Weisstein (1997) [581] "Remarks on Naomi Weisstein", Jesse Lemisch and Naomi Weisstein (1997) [582]
This strand of feminist literary theory originated in France in the early 1970s through the works of Cixous and other theorists including Luce Irigaray, [2] Chantal Chawaf, [3] [4] Catherine Clément and Julia Kristeva, [5] [6] and has subsequently been expanded upon by writers such as psychoanalytic theorist Bracha Ettinger.
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) [1] is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
Judith Fetterley (born 1938) is a literary scholar known for her work in feminism and women's studies.She was influential in leading a reappraisal of women's literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the contributions of women writing about women's experience, including their perspectives on men in the world.