PPT ON Feminist criticism

1. FEMINIST CRITICISM AND
THEORIES
Shri Ramachandra Hegade
Assistant Professor
GFGC, CHIKKABASUR

2. History
Feminist Criticism is not the 20th century
phenomenon.
It has antecedent from ancient Greece in
the work of Sappho and Aristophane.
Feminist theories were emerged to
ennoble her position and widen her
status.

3. Important Features of Feminist Criticism
 Feminist Criticism seeks to free from
patriarchal notions.
 Attempt to re-read classics.
 Feminist literary criticism aims to study
economical, social, political and
oppression of women in society.

4.  To unveil and expand the female tradition
of writings.
 To accelerate the alertness regarding
sexual politics of language and it’s
approach.
 Some feminists have urged the need for
female language.

5. Three Phases
First phase
 Submissive and introvert.
 First time raised voice in 1830s and 1840.
 Abolition of slavery.
 Women’s rights.
 Civil right to vote.

6. Second phase :
 Entered the mainstream of the society.
 Quest for self-identity.
 They were provided political and economic
rights.
 They were ensured the employment
opportunities.

7. Third Phase
 Recent effort to get equal rights and identity.
 The early 1990s.
 women’s voice has become the mountain
stream.
 Women are not only meant for bearing and
rearing children.

8. The Landmark works of Feminism
Virginia Woolf:

9. A Room of One’s Own(1929)

10.  Woolf was in many ways a pioneer of
feminist literary criticism.
 The lecture presented in Cambridge
University in 1928.
 An important feminist text.
 “a women must have money and a room
of her own if she is to write fiction”.

11. Simone de Beauvoir

12. The second Sex (1949)

13.  French feminist
 The author discusses the treatment
of women throughout history.
 Women were treated almost like
slaves.
 Translated into 40 languages.

14. Kate Millett

15. Sexual Politics (1969)

16. About female sexuality and the
representation of women in literature.
A classic of feminist text.
The bible of women liberation.

17. THANK YOU