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Though they lived in an era before an organised feminist movement, certain American poets have been lauded by feminist literary criticism as early examples of feminist writers. Feminist poetry in the United States is often thought of as beginning with Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), the first poet of the New World. There were also, however ...
Feminist criticism of children's literature is therefore expected, since it is a type of feminist literature. [10] Feminist children's literature has played a critical role for the feminist movement, especially in the past half century. In her book Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks states her belief that all types of ...
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.
American feminist critic and writer Elaine Showalter defines this movement as "the inscription of the feminine body and female difference in language and text." [ 14 ] Écriture féminine places experience before language, and privileges non-linear, cyclical writing that evades "the discourse that regulates the phallocentric system."
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Select Prose (1979–1985), Adrienne Rich (1986) Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, Kumari Jayawardena (1986) Feminist Studies, Critical Studies, Teresa de Lauretis (1986) "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis", Joan Wallach Scott (1986) [501] Ice and Fire, Andrea Dworkin (1986)
Like the Sirens of Greek mythology dolled up in Wes Anderson-esque Girl Scout uniforms, the four young women in Karen Cinorre’s stylish yet surface-level feminist fantasy “Mayday” lure off ...
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
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 ...