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Additionally, feminist criticism has been closely associated with the birth and growth of queer studies. Modern feminist literary theory seeks to understand both the literary portrayals and representation of both women and people in the queer community, expanding the role of a variety of identities and analysis within feminist literary ...
While previous figures like Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir had already begun to review and evaluate the female image in literature, [2] and second-wave feminism had explored phallocentrism and sexism through a female reading of male authors, gynocriticism was designed as a "second phase" in feminist criticism – turning to a focus on, and interrogation of female authorship, images, the ...
Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theories or politics. Its history has been varied, from classic works of female authors such as George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, [71] and Margaret Fuller to recent theoretical work in women's studies and gender studies by "third-wave" authors.
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".
The following is a list of feminist literature, listed by year of first publication, then within the year alphabetically by title (using the English title rather than the foreign language title if available/applicable). Books and magazines are in italics, all other types of literature are not and are in quotation marks.
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.
Since its 1987 publication, Stealing the Language has been groundbreaking for feminist literary criticism as well as for the feminist poetry movement.Google Scholar shows that it is cited in at least 355 scholarly works with varied subjects ranging from studies of individual women poets like Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich to books on feminist literary criticism and the gendered nature of ...
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present is a biographical dictionary about women writers. Companion was edited by Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. [1] It was published in 1990 by Batsford (now Pavilion Books) in the UK and Yale University Press in the US. [2]