Feminist theory

English education and Literature in English, I wondered why women writings seem to be an overlooked subject. Out of curiosity, a long term research into women’s experience, culture, and society explored through the lens of postcolonial, feminist, social and cultural theories was born. Through this research I have learned that oppressive cultural aspect of gender relationships, especially between women is something that is being dismissed and narratives about women were exclusively written by the…

Although ecofeminism helped to decenter the conceptuality of ‘male’ as a central subject of environmental debates, there were scholars who criticized the theory for homogenizing women and for assigning essentialist characteristics to women as a group (references). Critics like Agarwal (1992) and Jackson (1996) drew attention to the necessity of understanding women’s actions and knowledge in context of everyday political economy, division of labor and property rights (references).Drawing insights…

Looking through the lens of different literary theories would disclose information about how literature is examined by different readers. For instance, looking through the perspective of a feminist would lead to better understanding of the foundation for feminist criticism. Likewise, probing through ecological perspectives provide for comprehension of ecocriticism. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, reading through the lenses of these different literary theories reveal the selections in the novel that…

Feminist views heavily criticise power in society and challenges both mainstream and critical criminology. The feminist movement is broadly speaking a movement to eliminate oppression and inequalities towards women due to their gender (Beasley, 1999). It believes their male counterparts dictate policies and practises and fails to recognise the needs of women. This implies from a feminist perspective that there is a hegemonic ideology with males possessing much more considerable authority.…

Achebe’s and The Inheritance by Sahar khalefa Introduction Does post -colonialism theory have multiple phases like feminism? Is there a fixed postcolonial female identity? What are the impacts of double colonization on the female identify in colonized societies? Post-colonialism is defined in anthropology as the relations between European nations and areas they colonized and once ruled. A key goal of post-colonial theory is clearing space for multiple voices. This is especially true of those…

As a reaction to gender roles in the 1960s, feminism and queer theory became popular and made gender contentiously relate to rock music in early 1970s. In 1960s, women were disrespected in rock culture. The society still considered each sex comes with its own essential characteristics, such as aggressive for men and weak for girls. As the first stage of feminism began in west countries, musicians focus on topics about gender. Thus many contentious songs that mentioned about feminism,…

Perhaps one of the most relevant feminist art movement works on the theme of striptease and raunch culture is American visual artist Hannah Wilke’s: Super-T-Art -1974. Captured at the Kitchen, New York; Super-T-Art shows the artist in a progression of twenty poses in which she portrays the…

believed in and did not let anything stop her, regardless of how scandalous her ideas may have seemed to some people. Though she struggled at times with some of her own ideals, she definitely made an effort to live up to them as a true anarchist and feminist. The fact that not even her multiple arrests and deportation did not stop her from getting her point across speaks volumes. With her gracefully eloquent yet direct and unwavering speeches, it is no wonder she was often deemed the Queen of…

Before digging deep into the theory of Ecocriticism, a study of the preceding feminist approaches is essential in order to figure out their insufficiencies that made the fail to adequately address certain fundamental features of the mutual oppression of women and nature, which eventually led to the emergence of the theory of Ecocriticism as an inclusive theory to overcome such deficiencies. In "Dismantling Oppression: An Analysis of the Connection Between Women and Animals", Lori Gruen gives an…

my Back is an anthology that focuses on the lives of feminist women of color from different racial groups: Blacks, Chicana, Native Americans, Asians, and etc. In this anthology, Moraga brings up the term “theory in the flesh” when she talks about entering the lives others. According to Cherrie Moraga, a theory in the flesh is the physical realities of a person’s live such as skin color, place of birth, sexual desires, and etc (19). The theory is developed using the female writers’ “flesh and…