Feminist literary criticism Summary

In the following essay, Hogeland identifies three distinct phases of feminist writing from the 1960s to the present, noting that the different generations of feminists suffer more from an evasion of d... Read more

In the following essay, Kavka discusses the term “post-feminism,” linking the study of feminism with ethical history studies in such works as Toril Moi's Sexual/Textual Politics: ... Read more

In the following essay, Messer-Davidow examines the experiences of women within particular academic fields—utilizing essays from Evelyn Fox Keller, Elaine Showalter, Lillian S. Robinson, and Li... Read more

In the following essay, Delphy presents an overview of “French Feminism,” positing that this term was coined by American feminists who felt the need to displace their own controversial i... Read more

In the following essay, Watkins explores the critical writings of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva—as well as Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando—and... Read more

In the following essay, Dollimore explains and defends the approach of cultural materialism as a method of Shakespearean criticism, responds to feminist critics of this approach, and critiques feminis... Read more

In the essay that follows, Adelman studies the portrayal of Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, arguing that the play encourages the fantasy that Cressida somehow becomes “radically unknowable&#x... Read more

The Marxist concept of ideology is used to express the way in which the dominant group in a society controls the norms and values of that society at the level of ideas. As they own and direct the pro... Read more

Feminist criticism appeared in Europe and America in the late 1960s. In fact, most scholars were women, so this movement could easily make its way and became influential. It aims at exploring women'... Read more