how feminist reading is woven through course

What is the feminist approach to literature?

Feminist literary criticism recognizes that literature both reflects and shapes stereotypes and other cultural assumptions. Thus, feminist literary criticism examines how works of literature embody patriarchal attitudes or undercut them, sometimes both happening within the same work.

What is the purpose of feminist reading?

Specific goals of feminist criticism include both the development and discovery of female tradition of writing, and rediscovering of old texts, while also interpreting symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view and resisting sexism inherent in the majority of ...

What is the feminist view on education?

Feminists believe that education is an agent of secondary socialisation that helps to enforce patriarchy. They look at society on a MACRO scale. They want to generalise their ideas about males and females to the whole of society.

What does it mean to read through a feminist lens?

Feminist Lens. The feminist lens allows us to look at text through the eyes of a feminist to closely analyze how women are portrayed and presented in comparison to men. Feminism- movement for social, political, economic, and cultural equality between men and women; campaigns against gender inequalities.

How does the feminist approach help the readers understand the text?

Many feminist critics look at how the characters, especially the female characters, are portrayed and ask us to consider how the portrayal of female characters “reinforces or undermines sexual stereotypes” (Lynn). Feminist literary theory also suggests that the gender of the reader often affects our response to a text.

How is feminism reflected literature?

Studies of women's literature have shown that there are certain common themes that tend to play out in women's writing. Since the beginning of the women's movement, there has been a strong rise in the amount of literature that is self-consciously feminist in tone, clearly espousing the ideals of female equality.

Why feminism should be taught in schools?

Teaching feminism in schools will mean students will become more aware of the issues affecting their gender. It will give people the information and ability to fight back against any kind of gender-based discrimination that they may face in their lifetime.

How do feminists view the hidden curriculum?

Feminists claim that a powerful hidden curriculum operates inside schools and reinforces the gender-stereotyped socialisation they experience in the family and wider society.

What are the feminist perspectives?

Feminist perspective highlights the social issues that are often overlooked or misidentified by already present social theories. It analyses women's experiences of gender subordination and identifies the underlying causes of gender oppression.

What are the key elements of feminist analysis?

The core concepts in feminist theory are sex, gender, race, discrimination, equality, difference, and choice. There are systems and structures in place that work against individuals based on these qualities and against equality and equity.

What is the to learn about feminist criticism?

Feminist criticism is concerned with "the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women" (Tyson 83).

Why is women's literature important?

The onus of women's literature, then, is to categorize and create an area of study for a group of people marginalized by history and to explore through their writing their lives as they were while occupying such a unique sociopolitical space within their culture.

Feminism

The feminist perspective has much in common with the conflict perspective and throughout this course, we will typically discuss feminist theory alongside conflict theory, although many consider it deserving of its own classification.

Feminism and Heterosexism

The feminist perspective also criticizes exclusive understandings of sexuality, such as heterosexism. Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination that favor male-female sexuality and relationships.

Feminism and Multiculturalism

Though the feminist perspective focuses on diversity and liberation, it has been accused of being incompatible with multiculturalist policy. Multiculturalism aims to allow distinct cultures to reside together, either as distinct enclaves within ostensively Western societies, or as separate societies with national borders.

Recommended

Bunch, Charlotte. "Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education." In Feminist Theory: A Reader. 4th ed. Edited by Wendy K. Komar and Frances Bartkowski. McGraw Hill, 2013. ISBN: 9780073512358.

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Haslanger, Sally. "Epistemic Housekeeping and the Philosophical Canon: A Reflection on Jane Addams' 'Women and Public Housekeeping.'" (PDF)

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Enloe, Cynthia. "Crafting a Global 'Feminist Curiosity' to Make Sense of Globalized Militarism: Tallying Impacts, Exposing Causes." Chapter 1 in Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. ISBN: 9780742541122.

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Ferguson, Ann, and Rosemary Hennessy. " Feminist Perspectives on Class and Work ," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Fraser, Nancy. " From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a 'Post-Socialist' Age ." New Left Review I, no. 212 (1995): 68–93.