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Feminist critics generally agree that their goals are to expose patriarchal premises and
resulting prejudices, to promote discovery and re-evaluation of literature by women, and to
examine social, cultural, and psychosexual contexts of literature and literary criticism (Guerin
197).
1880-1920 phase
How to do this:
mens perception about women, and how they describe women,
the creativity of women in relation with their potentiality
the application of the theory in womens studies
Four Significant Current Practices on Feminist
Literary Approach
Gender Studies
Marxist Feminism
Psychoanalytical Feminism
Elaine Showalter
Adrienne Rich
Virginia Woolf
Kate Millet
Betty Friedan
Myra Jehlen
Julia Kristeva
Sources:
Guerin, Wilfred L. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. New
York: Oxford UP, 1999. Print.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/11/
http://www2.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/femcharacteristics.html