Feminism
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- Created on: 11-06-19 15:58
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- First wave feminism (19th-20th century in West)
- Birth control access was illegal until 1918.
- Equal rights between white and black women.
- Focused on legal issues, especially the right to vote. UK-1918, USA-1920.
- Feminism
- Second wave feminism (1960s-1980s)
- In literature
- Feminism has shaped and changed the Canon.
- Helene Cixious
- French feminist thinkers who challenged ideas such as psychoanalytic theory.
- Luce Irigaray
- French feminist thinkers who challenged ideas such as psychoanalytic theory.
- Luce Irigaray
- Criticism
- Written as a resistance to the notion that women were unstable and prone to hysteria.
- 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Gilman 1892
- In literature
- Feminism has shaped and changed the Canon.
- Helene Cixious
- French feminist thinkers who challenged ideas such as psychoanalytic theory.
- French feminist thinkers who challenged ideas such as psychoanalytic theory.
- In literature
- 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Gilman 1892
- Key Words
- Patriarchy: Men holding more power than women.
- Feminism
- Second wave feminism (1960s-1980s)
- Criticism
- Liberal Feminism: goal of achieving equality between men and women. Want to break through the glass ceiling and get people to acknowledge that women have the same ability as men.
- Top Girls-Caryl Churchill
- Key Words
- Patriarchy: Men holding more power than women.
- Gezari
- Gilbert and Gubar 'applaud' the Woman in the Attic's 'expressive transgressions'.
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