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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 ...
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."
A young Visayan noblewoman depicted in the Boxer Codex (1590). Binukot is a pre-Hispanic practice in the Philippine archipelago that is still practiced. A tribe or community deems a girl worthy of being secluded in order to protect them so they gain cultural prestige and are more appealing to high-class suitors.
Arguably one of the most insufferable protagonists in literature is the title figure in Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther” — a martyr to unrequited love who ultimately ...
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]
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".
This is evidenced by Perrault's pluckiest heroines, the women at the center of "Ricky of the Tuft," a story that prizes intelligence over physical attraction among potential female partners. The story, unsurprisingly, was not included in the Grimms' anthology; it'd have been . a strange, lovely anomaly among the rest.
Daouda Dieng: A suitor of Ramatoulaye prior to her marriage with Modou who proposes to Ramatoulaye after her husband dies, but is turned down. Daba: Ramatoulaye's and Modou's daughter. She is married and the eldest child. She is disgusted by her father's choice to take a second wife, especially one of her closest friends.