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Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. ISBN 0-415-02974-0; ISBN 0-415-28012-5 (second edition). Rita Felski, "Literature After Feminism" ISBN 0-226-24115-7; Annette Kolodny. "Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism." Adele Reinhartz. "Jewish Women's ...
Feminist theory often focuses on analyzing gender inequality. Themes often explored in feminist theory include discrimination, objectification (especially sexual objectification), oppression, patriarchy, [3] [4] stereotyping, art history [5] and contemporary art, [6] [7] and aesthetics. [8] [9]
Multiracial feminism (also known as "women of color" feminism) offers a standpoint theory and analysis of the lives and experiences of women of color. [24] The theory emerged in the 1990s and was developed by Dr. Maxine Baca Zinn, a Chicana feminist, and Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill, a sociology expert on African American women and family. [24] [25]
[5] In May 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP) published Lawford-Smith's book, Gender-Critical Feminism , despite petitions objecting to its publication. The OUP responded to these petitions by asserting that Lawford-Smith's book is a work of rigorous scholarship [ 6 ] and not merely polemical as the petitions claimed. [ 7 ]
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.
Nancy Fraser (/ ˈ f r eɪ z ər /; born May 20, 1947) is an American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City. [2]
Judith Pamela Butler [1] (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, [2] queer theory, [3] and literary theory.
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 ...