Feminist Approach
Feminist Approach
Feminist Approach
FEMINIST APPROACH
II. QOUTE was an American memoirist, popular poet and civil rights activist. She
published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is
credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.
III. Feminist meaning: an advocate of women's rights on the basis of the equality of
the sexes; a person who supports feminism. Feminism: the advocacy of women's rights
on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
IV.
Feminist literary criticism looks at literature assuming its production from
a male-dominated perspective. It re-examines canonical works to show
how gender stereotypes are involved in their functioning. It examines
(and often rediscovers) works by women for a possible alternative voice
How is the feminist approach applied in literature?
Like feminism itself, feminist literary theory asks us to consider the relationships
between men and women and their relative roles in society. Much feminist literary
theory reminds us that the relationship between men and women in society is often
unequal and reflects a particular patriarchal ideology.
What is the foocused of feminist approach?
Feminist criticism focuses on how literature has represented women and relationships
between women and men, drawing attention to how women have been marginalized and
denied a voice of their own in much of canonical literature, and to how literature reflects
society's prevailing ideological assumptions with regard to gender and power.
What is the purpose of using the feminist approach in analyzing literary works?
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.
Disadvantages
It is a biased view against men. Some men do not exploit women and see themselves as
feminists.
Hypocritical. They are degrading men just like what they believe men are doing to them.
Ignores the changes that are happening such as the Equal Pay Act and Free Will.