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Feminist Criticism

Authored by Margaret Anderson

English

12th Grade

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Feminist Criticism
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the direct product of the ‘woman’s movement’ of the 1960s?

Feminist literary criticism

Biology

Literature

Political position

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to Toril Moi, what is ‘a political position’?

Female

Feminine

Feminism

Socialisation

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the major focus of feminist criticism in the 1970s?

Rethinking the canon

Exposing mechanisms of patriarchy

Exploring female world and outlook

Constructing a new canon of women’s writing

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did Elaine Showalter describe as a shift of attention in the late 1970s?

Rethinking the canon

Focusing on women's texts

Constructing a new canon of women’s writing

Exploring female world and outlook

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the role of language in feminist criticism?

Promoting gender stereotypes

Reinforcing patriarchal power

Creating barriers for women

Making what is social and constructed seem transparent and ‘natural’

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the question raised about male and female identity in feminist criticism?

Whether there is a male language

Whether men and women are ‘essentially’ different because of biology

Whether there is a female language

Whether there is a female language available to men

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the purpose of ‘re-reading’ psychoanalysis in feminist criticism?

To challenge representations of women as ‘Other’

To reinforce gender stereotypes

To explore the issue of female and male identity

To examine power relations in texts

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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