4. What is Feminism?
is the belief that women should
have equal rights to men. In
consequence, the feminist
movement fights for equal rights
and opportunities for women.
6. First Wave
Feminism
Women are widely considered to be:
intellectually inferior
Phsically weak
Emotional
They were not educated and
women’s property and salary
were owned by her husband
women could not vote
suited the role
of wife and
mother
Physical abuse
is legal within
marriage
7. First Wave Feminism (19th &
20th)
The key concerns of First Wave were
education, employment, the marriage
laws, and the plight of intelligent middle-
class single women.
Over all goal:
to improve the legal position for
women in particular to gain women the vote.
8. SECOND WAVE FEMINISM
(1960-1980)
Women could attend school and university
Women did not receive equal pay for the same
work
It was easier to gain a divorce but socially frown
upon
Rape and physically abuse within marriage were
illegal but husbands were rarely convicted.
9. It dealt with inequality of laws and pioneered by
Betty Friedan.
Women achieved championed abortion rights,
reproductive freedom, and other women’s health
issues.
SECOND WAVE FEMINISM
(1960-1980)
10. THIRD WAVE
FEMINISM
They seeks to challenge or avoid what seems
the second wave’s “essentialist”.
They focused on a multicultural emphasis and
strived to address problems stemming from
sexism, racism, social class inequality, and
homophobia.
12. RADICAL FEMINISM
It calls for a radical reordering of society in which
male supremacy is eliminated in all social and
economic contexts or seek to abolish patriarchy
by challenging existing social norms and
institutions, rather than through a purely
political process.
13. LIBERAL FEMINISM
It aims to achieve equal legal, political, and
social rights for women. Women’s issues
can no longer be ignored.
14. MARXIST & SOCIALIST
FEMINISM
Marxism recognize that women are oppressed,
and attributes the oppression to the
capitalist/private property system. Thus they
insist that the only way to end the oppression of
women is to overthrow the capitalist system.
Social femninism is the result of marxism meeting
the radical feminism.
15. HOW TO USE FEMINIST
LITERARY THEORY?
Quenstions to consider when analyzing a text from the
feminist approach…
1. How do the female characters perceive
themselves in the text?
2. How do the male characters perceive the
female character?
3. Is the portrayal of women (or men) sexist?
16. 4. Are there any gender stereotypes portrayed in
the text and if so, what are they? Do they give power
to a gender, or they suppress a gender?
5. What is the naure of the relationship between the
male and female characters?
17. 6. Are there any indications of the author’s attitude
toward women?
7. What were the social and historical conditions
for women in this period that might help us
understand their roles and desires in the text?
