Feminist-Literary-Criticism

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Historical Phases of Women’s LiteraryDevelopment According to Elaine Showalter• 840-1880 phasethe feminine phase women writers imitated the dominant tradition• 1880-1920 phasethe feminist phase women advocated minority rights and protested• 1920 phase -todaythe female phase a rediscovery of women’s texts and women
Characteristics of Feminist Approach:• Sex ≠ gender• Gender is a socially/culturally constructed. It is learned and performed; it involves themyriad and often normative meanings given to sexual difference by various cultures.• Sex is a biologically based category.• Although sex/gender systems differ cross-culturally, most known societieshave used and still use sex/gender as a key structural principleorganizing their actual and conceptual worlds, usually to thedisadvantage of women.• Feminist scholars argue that gender is a crucial category of analysis and that modes ofknowledge which do not take gender into account are partial and incomplete.
Page 9 and 10: Elaine Showalter’s Feminist Ident
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