Write an essay on the three phases of Feminist Criticism.
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Elaine Showalter's three phases of feminism: the “feminine” (women writers imitate men), the “feminist” (women advocated minority rights and protested), and the “female” (the focus is now on women's texts as opposed to merely uncovering misogyny in men's texts).
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Feminism is concerned with the marginalization of women in a patriarchal culture.
Feminist critics explain how the subordination of women is reflected or challenged by literary texts. They examine the experiences of women of all races, classes, sexual preferences, and cultures.
Feminist critics’ goals: to expose patriarchal premises and resulting prejudices; to promote the discovery and reevaluation of literature by women; and to examine social, cultural, and psychosexual contexts of literature and literary criticism.
First-, second-, and third-wave feminisms roughly corresponding to the nineteenth century, the first three-quarters of the twentieth century, and the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries.
Elaine Showalter’s three phases of feminism: the “feminine” (women writers imitate men), the “feminist” (women advocated minority rights and protested), and the “female” (the focus is now on women’s texts as opposed to merely uncovering misogyny in men’s texts).
Showalter’s four models of sexual difference: biological, linguistic, psychoanalytic, and cultural.
Gender studies: how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.
Male and female discursive logic: sequential vs. associational.