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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)
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 ...
The feminist movement produced feminist fiction, feminist non-fiction, and feminist poetry, which created new interest in women's writing. It also prompted a general reevaluation of women's historical and academic contributions in response to the belief that women's lives and contributions have been underrepresented as areas of scholarly ...
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 ...