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Feminist Critique Approaches

This document discusses different approaches to critiquing academic texts, with a focus on feminist criticism. It defines key terms in feminist criticism like patriarchy and marginalization. It describes feminist criticism as arising from feminist theories and valuing women's experiences and knowledge. It outlines some basic methods of feminist literary criticism, including identifying with female characters, reevaluating literature from a feminist perspective, and deconstructing how women are portrayed and described. The goals of feminist criticism are also discussed as recognizing women's contributions to literature and society.

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Feminist Critique Approaches

This document discusses different approaches to critiquing academic texts, with a focus on feminist criticism. It defines key terms in feminist criticism like patriarchy and marginalization. It describes feminist criticism as arising from feminist theories and valuing women's experiences and knowledge. It outlines some basic methods of feminist literary criticism, including identifying with female characters, reevaluating literature from a feminist perspective, and deconstructing how women are portrayed and described. The goals of feminist criticism are also discussed as recognizing women's contributions to literature and society.

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English for Academic and

Professional Purposes
Writing a Critique
Approaches in
Critiquing
Academic Texts
APPROACHES:
 Biographical
 Psychological
 Reader-response
 Historical
 Feminism
 Formalism
FEMINISM
KEY WORDS IN FEMINIST CRITICISM
 Patriarchy: traditional male-
dominated society.
 Marginalization: the process or state
of being forced to the edges of social
and political significance.
FEMINISM
 literary analysis that arises from the
perspective of feminism or feminist
theories.
 includes women's knowledge in
literature and valuing women's
experiences.
 Feminist criticism DOES NOT only
analyze how a literary
Do not choose the topic work is
created, but it also evaluates how it
because someone else
is received by the audience.says so!
 Feminist criticism's roots are in women's
social, political, economic and psychological
oppression.
 Feminist criticism aims to reinterpret the old
texts and establish the importance of
women's writing to save it from being lost or
ignored in the male-dominated world.
The basic methods of feminist literary criticism
include:

 Identifying with female characters: By


examining the way female characters are defined,
critics challenge the male-centered outlook of
authors. Feminist literary criticism suggests that
women in literature have been historically
presented as objects seen from a male perspective.
 Reevaluating literature and the world
in which literature is read: By
revisiting the classic literature, the critic
can question whether society has
predominantly valued male authors and
their literary works because it has valued
males more than females.
Feminist Literary
Criticism
Methods
 Deconstructing the way that women
characters are described in novels,
stories, plays, biographies, and
histories, especially if the author is
male
 Deconstructing how one's own gender
influences how one reads and
interprets a text, and which characters
and how the reader identifies
depending on the reader's gender
 Deconstructing how women
autobiographers and biographers of
women treat their subjects
 •Critique of patriarchal or woman-
marginalizing language, such as a
"universal" use of the masculine
pronouns "he" and "him"
Feminist
Theories
Feminist criticism has roughly aligned with
the three waves of feminism, so there are
three rough periods of feminist criticism,
each with their own defining characteristics,
that correspond with each phase of women's
overall political emancipation.
FIRST WAVE FEMINISM:
Men's Treatment Of Women
(Late 1700s-early 1900s)
 largely focused on how male authors and
novelists view and portray women in their
works. Critics in this time considered the
ways in which novelists discriminate against
and marginalize women characters.
SECOND WAVE FEMINISM:
Gynocriticism
(early 1960s-late 1970s)

 establishing more equal working conditions


and bringing women together for feminist
political activism.
THIRD WAVE FEMINISM:
(early 1990s-present)

 emphasize individual rights, as well as


acceptance of diversity.
Feminist
Criticism’s
Goals
By recognizing women's value and their
contributions to literature and society,
feminist criticism seeks to elevate
women to their rightful place in society
as contributors to and important
elements of literary works and society
writ large.
"The Necklace" is a short
story by French writer Guy de
Maupassant. It is known for its
twist ending, which was a
hallmark of de Maupassant's
style. The story was first
published on 17 February 1884
in the French newspaper

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