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Feminism in LiteratureFeminism is the theory that people who identify as female should be treated in the same manner as their male counterparts. This has a variety of implications, including power-relationships,...
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Feminism in LiteratureThree 20th Century works of literature that feature women striving for and attaining power are Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa (1937), Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees (1988), and Alice...
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Feminism in LiteratureFeminist Criticism in Literature is the preocupation of ensuring the equal (or proportionally similar) treatment of the female gender in written works that inevitably need to assign a role to...
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FeminismOne reason why feminist theory can be seen as true would be that it is an ongoing struggle. Even the most optimistic view of gender relations would concede that there are issues of gender...
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Feminism in LiteratureIndeed, the argument can be made that The Scarlet Letter lays some of the groundwork for feminist literature. Hester Prynne stands apart from the Puritan community as a non-member; furthermore, she...
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Feminism in LiteratureAsare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime can be examined using a Feminist lens. Feminist Literary Criticism examines a text regarding its perpetuation of patriarchal ideologies or its pull away from it....
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Feminism in LiteratureIn "Gender Trouble," Judith Butler describes the ways in which gender and sexuality are culturally and socially constructed. She argues that the strict binary opposition of male/female and the...
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Feminism in LiteratureThree plays which explore the sexual victimisation of women, a key feminist issue, are Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677), Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893), and Tennessee Williams' A...
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Feminism in LiteratureFirst note the novel had not emerged as a concrete genre during the period which you've specified. Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605, 1615) is sometimes credited as the first novel, but was also...
