Feminist Criticism

What is the purpose of Feminist Criticism?

• To examine and question social understandings of particular ideas. Especially focusing on sexuality and diversity.

• To examine and question social understandings of particular ideas. Especially focusing on gender and women.

• To examine and question social understanding of particular ideas. Especially focusing on class struggle and alienation.

• IDK, I just think it's rad.

What is the term Hélène Cixous coined?

• Oui, Oui, Croissant

• Souffrance Féminine

  (women's suffering)

• Écriture Féminine (women’s writing)

• Pouvoir Féminine (women’s power)

Which is NOT an example of different forms of feminist criticism

• Only reading pieces written by women because they are inherently and unequivocally superior

• Bringing women’s writing and perspectives into the light

• Re-reading a piece of writing by a man​

• • Critiques of popular culture and representation of women in media​

Select all that apply: Who were the feminists that created the model for American Feminist Criticism?

• Judith Fetterley
• Meredith Grey

• Carolyn Heilbrun

• Ellen Pompeo

• Kate Millet

True/False: Mary Shelley originally published Frankenstein under her own name.

• True

• False

Which is NOT one of the 3 criteria apart of the Bechdel Test?

• That at least two women are featured

• That these women talk to each other

• That they discuss something other than a man

• That these women have names

True/False: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein passes the Bechdel Test.

• True

• False

If woman is to man, Sphere of Domesticity is to the sphere of___?

True/False: Feminist thought was classified originally by topic.

• True

• False