Feminist-Literary-Criticism

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.