Separatist feminism

Focusing primarily on the first paragraph of the extract from Water’s ‘Affinity’ (1999), I have identified a thread of feminist criticism throughout the text. Peter Barry (p.116) describes feminist literary criticism as the realisation of “the significance of the images promulgated by literature”, and the need to “combat them and question their authority and their coherence”. In this essay I aim to talk about my interpretations of the feminine images evoked in the extract; including feminist spirit

for rights or liberty with this idea. She just shows her sympathies to the individual in the context of his and her personal life society. One famous saying by Rebecca West came to my mind, “I, myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” These so-called “feminist” writers just performed their due duties and did right work but don’t think they were doing anything special

Introduction Many people nowadays growth up with Disney Cartoon, characters and stories behind influence us. Little girls fancy being a princess, waiting for their Prince Charming and live happily ever after. Disney cartoon create gender roles and values that create gender difference, why Prince are always charming and brave, while Princess are beautiful and usually waiting for a prince’s rescue? The changes and differences of the Disney Princess Cartoon in the past and present, and how they

My view on Feminism Betty I totally agree that Kate Chopin was a feminist author. Kate, Chopin is one of America’s most important women writers of 19th century. In 19th century, there were strict restrictions on women in law, religion and tradition, especially women’s right. They couldn’t vote, couldn’t make their voices heard by the public. What’s more, more work refused to hire female staff, the majority of women

Abstract: The present paper focuses on Tehmina Durrani’s autobiographical novel My Feudal Lord, analysing the cultural and gender constructions, which are the source of women’s exploitation and their subjugation in a traditional society. It studies how the novelist is forced to encounter the brutal treatment by her husband. She faces the physical, sexual and psychological violence at her husband’s house. Yet at the end of the novel, the novelist gets ready to subvert all the cultural and gender roles

who was a psychologist and a lawyer, and believed that women's capacity for love, nurture, and self-sacrifice would make them better leaders than men. He created Wonder Woman in order to gain his vision of female empowerment. While the character's feminism is unquestionably open to judgement, her creator's desires were clear. Nevertheless, Wonder Woman has grown into an important symbol of the feminist movement and

When Stieg Larsson’s novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, hit the bookshelves, it was swiftly heralded as one of Sweden’s finest, and most popular crime novels to date. Published posthumously after Larsson’s death, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an intricately designed and darkly ironic piece of crime fiction. It must be emphasized, however, that it is indeed a work of Scandinavian crime fiction, and is thereby subject to the clichés and to the common characteristics of other Scandinavian

This paper is an attempt to study the birth of New Woman, in the light of feministic analysis, in the Immigrant Indian women characters in the short stories of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Arranged Marriage”. It deplores that being trapped between tradition and modernity, Chitra B. Divakaruni’s immigrant heroines are fully conscious of being victims of gender discrimination prevalent in the conservative male-dominated society. C. Divakaruni gives her pragmatic resolutions related to the modern Indian

Anita Desai is considered the writer who introduced the psychological novel in the tradition of Virginia Woolf. Desai's novels span an extensive range of issues. They map the evolution of a writer from obsession with the unrevealed inner-world of her female characters to themes of perennial interest to all. Her preoccupation with the female psyche provides way to issues of larger human interests demonstrating the authors own growth to maturity. Desai explores the state of nothingness in some of her

"Virginia Woolf and the F-Word: on the Difficulties of Defining Woolf's (Anti)Feminism" Lund University Her feminism cannot be strictly categorized, it is unique. Virginia Woolf is nowadays often referred to as an early feminist writer; from the point of view of a Woolf reader in the 21st century, there seems to be no doubt about Woolf's status as a feminist. Woolf herself, however, was very critical about the term feminism, hence the term the f-word. Many political and social changes took place during