2. ‘one is not born a woman; rather,
one became a women.’
~beauvoir
Name : Dodiya Mehul Maheshbhai
Roll No : 23
Enrollment No : 206910840120011
Class : M.A. Sem 2
Topic : Feminist Criticism (Terms)
Year : 2017/19
Submitted to : Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of
English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University
3. Marry Wollstonecraft Margaret Fuller
it’s woman movement in 1960s to struggle for equality.
Woman’s social and political Rights marked by such books
4. FC is the literary and critical theory that explores the bias
in the favor of the male gender in literature and which
reexamines all literature from a feminist point of view.
FC has two basic
premises:
Male Point of Views Female point of views
5.
6. First wave of feminism (1880s-1920s)
Susan Anthony Victoria Woodhall
Activity during the 19th and early 20th cent. In UK, US, and Canada.
Women’s Suffrage occurred in Finland, Iceland, Sweden.
7. Basic Assumption and prob.
“Men and women have
separate, biologically,
determined roles and
duties in society, women
works in private Sphere
then men is the Public
Sphere.”
1. Intellectual inferior
2. Physically weak
3. Emotion and Irrational
4. Suited as a wives and mother
5. Married women’s salary were
owned by her Husband
6. Rape & physical abuse are
legal
7. Divorce
8. No rights
9. Educated rights
10. Could not vote.
8. Second wave of Feminism (1960s-90s)
Society Patriarchal
Women may have legal
Rights but they still
treated as inferior.
Women should be equal
to men in all respect.
It Dealt with inequality of low, and Pioneer by Betty Friedan.
achieved championed abortion rights, freedom and women’s heath issues.
Basic assumption
9. Third Wave of Feminism
Early from 1990s to Present resisting the perceived essentialist
ideologies and a white, heterosexual and middle class focus of
second wave of Feminism, the Third Wave feminism borrows
from Post-structural and Contemporize gender and race theories
to expand on marginalized population’s experience.
Rebecca Walker states in her book, To Be Real: Telling the Truth
and Changing the Face of Feminism:
"For many of us it seems that to be a feminist in the way that we
have seen or understood feminism is to conform to an identity
and way of living that doesn't allow for individuality, complexity
or less than perfect personal histories."
12. Cites Works
Arihent Publication Books : History of English
Literature (Book)
Literary Theory and Terms By M.H. Abraham (Book)
Literary Criticism and Theory by M.H. Nagarajam (Book)
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/11/
Guide By Mahirpari Goswami
