EVA NUR MAZIDAH
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THEORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
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THEORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
FEMINIST CRITICISM
• Feminist criticism examines the ways in which literature reinforce or undermine the economics, political, social, and psychological oppression of women.
• The meanest feminist claims that we should not use the masculine pronoun “he” to represent both men and women. For common people, “inclusive he” is a merely a convention language that include man and women. But for feminist, pronoun “he” reflects and bolster a “habit of seeing” which use male experience as the standard of both sexes is evaluated, e.g. literary works.
• Traditional gender roles show men as rational, strong, protective, and decisive while women as emotional (irrational), weak, nurturing, and submissive.
• Patriarchy, sexist, women are innately inferior to men.
• Biological essentialism → belief in the inborn inferior to men.
• Hysteria (Greek: womb) refers to psychological disorders considered peculiar to women and characterized by over-emotional, highly irrational behavior.
• Feminism distinguishes between sex(biological constitution, male and female) and gender(cultural programming, feminine and masculine).
• Demolishing verbal attacks to men is to be compared with women.
• Homosexuality’s included in the list of “feminine” behaviors. Thus, patriarchy wants to weaken a behavior, it portrays that behavior as feminine.
• Patriarchy concept of feminine is linked to frailty, modesty, and timidity→ disempowers women.
• In fairy tales, it’s shown how persuasive patriarchal ideology is and how it can program us without our knowledge and consent.
• Patriarchal ideology divides women into two categories; good girl/Madonna/angel and bad girl/whore/bitch.
• Patriarchy continually se forces that weaken women’s self confidence and assertiveness, then points to be absence of these qualities as proof that women are naturally, and self-effacing and submissive.
• In patriarchal programming mind-set, girls are programmed to fail and be less logical than males. It justifies its assumption about women.
• The persistence of repressive attitudes toward women]s sexuality is still visible in our language today.
• Tight skirt and high heels(feminine) represent physical ability imposed by 19 century women clothing and to the male sexual access to women’s bodies such clothes allow.
• All feminist activities, theory and literature criticism, are to gain equality gender.
• Patriarchal makes generally require prescribed “correct” methods of organization, rationalist logic, and linier thinking.
• E criture feminine is fluidly organized and freely associative.
• Deal with entrapment within patriarchal ideology is to consider the possibility that no ideology succeed in fully programming all people all of the time.
• Feminists use elements of psychoanalysis (help to understand the psychological effect of patriarchal ideology as well as how and why women and men internalize it), Marxist(how economic forces have been manipulated by law and custom to keep women oppressed as an underclass), and deconstruction( help to see the ways where patriarchal is often based on the false opposition.
• Patriarchy operates differently in different countries.
• The ultimate aim of feminist criticism is to increase our understanding in women experience, both in the past and present, and promote our appreciation of women’s values in the world.
• The meanest feminist claims that we should not use the masculine pronoun “he” to represent both men and women. For common people, “inclusive he” is a merely a convention language that include man and women. But for feminist, pronoun “he” reflects and bolster a “habit of seeing” which use male experience as the standard of both sexes is evaluated, e.g. literary works.
• Traditional gender roles show men as rational, strong, protective, and decisive while women as emotional (irrational), weak, nurturing, and submissive.
• Patriarchy, sexist, women are innately inferior to men.
• Biological essentialism → belief in the inborn inferior to men.
• Hysteria (Greek: womb) refers to psychological disorders considered peculiar to women and characterized by over-emotional, highly irrational behavior.
• Feminism distinguishes between sex(biological constitution, male and female) and gender(cultural programming, feminine and masculine).
• Demolishing verbal attacks to men is to be compared with women.
• Homosexuality’s included in the list of “feminine” behaviors. Thus, patriarchy wants to weaken a behavior, it portrays that behavior as feminine.
• Patriarchy concept of feminine is linked to frailty, modesty, and timidity→ disempowers women.
• In fairy tales, it’s shown how persuasive patriarchal ideology is and how it can program us without our knowledge and consent.
• Patriarchal ideology divides women into two categories; good girl/Madonna/angel and bad girl/whore/bitch.
• Patriarchy continually se forces that weaken women’s self confidence and assertiveness, then points to be absence of these qualities as proof that women are naturally, and self-effacing and submissive.
• In patriarchal programming mind-set, girls are programmed to fail and be less logical than males. It justifies its assumption about women.
• The persistence of repressive attitudes toward women]s sexuality is still visible in our language today.
• Tight skirt and high heels(feminine) represent physical ability imposed by 19 century women clothing and to the male sexual access to women’s bodies such clothes allow.
• All feminist activities, theory and literature criticism, are to gain equality gender.
• Patriarchal makes generally require prescribed “correct” methods of organization, rationalist logic, and linier thinking.
• E criture feminine is fluidly organized and freely associative.
• Deal with entrapment within patriarchal ideology is to consider the possibility that no ideology succeed in fully programming all people all of the time.
• Feminists use elements of psychoanalysis (help to understand the psychological effect of patriarchal ideology as well as how and why women and men internalize it), Marxist(how economic forces have been manipulated by law and custom to keep women oppressed as an underclass), and deconstruction( help to see the ways where patriarchal is often based on the false opposition.
• Patriarchy operates differently in different countries.
• The ultimate aim of feminist criticism is to increase our understanding in women experience, both in the past and present, and promote our appreciation of women’s values in the world.
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