Feminist Power Point - ENG3014
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A Look Into the Brilliant Minds of the
Feminist Movement
From
Britain and worked in the country as a
teacher
Wrote her powerful work A Room of One’s
Own declaring that men treat women as
inferiors and they must reject social ideals
for femaleness to define themselves
A
Room of One’s Own centers on a story in
which Shakespeare’s sister who is equally
talented and gifted as writer is stifled for
being a woman
WHO AM I?
Part
of the second wave feminist movement
in the late 60’s and 70’s
Wrote Sexual Politics and brought forth the
assertion that a female is born and a woman
created
Says that sexual politics are the operations of
power relations in society and that in the
West, institutional power rests with the man
WHO AM I?
Broke
down female writing into three phases:
femine, feminist, and female
Brought
forth the idea of gynocriticism and
gynocritics which focuses on the study of the
female experience
Classifies
gynocritics into four models: the
biological, the linguistic, the psychoanalytic
and the cultural models.
WHO
AM I?
Is
Christian Bale’s stepmother
Was
deeply involved in the women’s
liberation movement and founded the
National Women’s Political Caucus
Has
written many prolific books and articles
with a feminist approach including
Revolution from Within and Outrageous Acts
and Everyday Rebellions
WHO AM I?
Was
Mary Shelly’s mother
Wrote
The Vindication of the Rights of
Woman in an attempt to create equality
between men and women in the academic
setting
One of the founding mothers of the feminist
movement as a member of the first wave of
feminism
WHO AM I?