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Title: Feminist Theory (VERY in depth) (Colorful)(VERY well formatted)
Description: This goes into depth with the realm of literary feminism. It goes into depth and uses aids, such as pictures and analogies!

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F IRST WAV E F E M I N I S M ( L AT E 1700’ S E ARLY 19 0 0 ’S


Highlight inequalities between the sexes
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Anthony and Victoria Woodhull

Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games

contribute to women’s suffrage movement
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National Organization for Women (1966)

T HI RD WAV E F E MI N I S M ( EA R LY 1990’ S P R ES EN T DAY)


Borrows from post-structural and contemporary gender and
race theories



Rosa Sutpen from Absalom Absalom!

What is literary feminism?

More based on entertainment and electronic
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How are women opposed in
literature?

E X A M P L E S O F L I T E R A RY
FEMINISM

• Women are oppressed by patriarchy economically,
politically, socially, and psychologically;
patriarchal ideology is the primary means by
which they are kept so
• In every domain where patriarchy reigns, woman

F IRST WAVE F EM IN ISM

is other: she is marginalized, defined only by her

“AB S ALOM AB SALOM !”

difference from male norms and values

Absalom, Absalom! is a novel from the first wave Feminist Criticism novel, taking place at the latest in 1909
...
Characters

• All of western (Anglo-European) civilization is
deeply rooted in patriarchal ideology, for example,

such as Rosa and Ellen are helpless to the injustices and the women Thomas Sutpen comes across reduced to
the role of child-bearers
...
It follows the story of a woman
named Celie who undergoes sexual assault from multiple men and eventually participates in a same-sex
relationship, also featuring several other female characters of strong will and resilience
...


change the world by prompting gender equality
• Gender issues play a part in every aspect of
human production and experience, including the
production and experience of literature, whether
we are consciously aware of these issues or not
...
Katniss Everdeen is a brave
heroine who steps out of the general role of female servitude and pacifically
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Title: Feminist Theory (VERY in depth) (Colorful)(VERY well formatted)
Description: This goes into depth with the realm of literary feminism. It goes into depth and uses aids, such as pictures and analogies!