Feminism

👉 Feminism started as a political movement in 1960s

👉 Virginia Woolf's popular lectures published as essays in the title 'A Room of One's Own'.

👉 The Second Sex (1949) is a popular work written by Simone De Beauvoir.

👉 Toril Moi, a French Philosopher, has written the work 'Feminist Literary Criticism '

👉 According to Toril Moi, the term ' Feminism ' is a 'political position '

👉 According to Toril Moi, the term Femine' is culturally defined characteristics.

👉 Toril Moi demystifies the term female as a matter of biology.

👉 Patriarchy/paternal authority perpetuated the sexual inequality in men and women.

👉 Elaine Showalter is an American Feminist critic .

👉 The term 'gynocritics'is coined by Elaine Showalter in 1970s

👉 The aim of 'gynocritics' is to construct a female framework for the analysis of women's Literature.

👉 The right order of three phrases of feminist literary history by Elaine Showalter is ' feminine, feminist, female's

👉 Elaine Showalter's feminist phase is between 1880-1920 known for protest/radical equality.

👉 Elaine Showalter's third phase - female phase from 1920 onwards is known for self-discovery.

👉 Anglo American Feminist critics (1970s) focus on close reading of a text, otherwise known as formalising.

👉 English Feminist Criticism (1980s) tends to be class conscious, socialist feminist and aligned with Marxism.

👉 French Feminist Criticism focuses on ' Language and Psychology " aligned with post- structuralists and Psychology, esp Laccan, Foucult, and Derrida .

👉 Some of the practitioners of Anglo American Feminist critics are Elaine Showalter, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Guber.

👉 Sexual/ Textual politics is a prominent work by Toril Moi, an Eng feminist critic.

👉Women and Labour (1911) by Oliver Schreiner.

👉 The Subjection of women(1869) by John Stuart Mill.

👉 The Origin of Family - Friedrich Engels

👉 The Laugh of Medusa by Helen Cixous.