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Analyzing Literature with Feminist Criticism

Analyzing Literature with Feminist Criticism. Remember. Critique = Analyze So, a criticism is just an analysis. Feminism.

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Analyzing Literature with Feminist Criticism

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  1. Analyzing Literature with Feminist Criticism

  2. Remember • Critique = Analyze • So, a criticism is just an analysis

  3. Feminism • Feminist criticism is concerned with "...the ways in which literature reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women”

  4. How do I analyze literature using Feminist Criticism? • Make note of all the feminine characters and where they are found in the text. • Identify the power relationships between female and male characters. • Compare the female characters to both positive and negative stereotypes of women. • Do they fit these stereotypes or act against them? • Are they successful? • Look at all your evidence and make a statement about the role of feminine characters within the work. What is the author attempting to suggest about women?

  5. Let’s Practice: • Brothers Grimm’s Cinderella • Who are the female characters and what do they do? • Are there any interactions with men? If so, what is the power relationship like? • Any stereotypes upheld or broken? • What do we learn about women from reading this text?

  6. Xerox Commercial • http://youtu.be/Spb0bo3IT0I

  7. Example Statements • Mr. Tolbert’s version of Hansel and Gretel portrays women as morally strong but socially weak as they are never listened to and constantly act as followers. • The Brothers Grimm version of Cinderellacontributes to the oppression of women and shows them as being constantly dependent on men and always willing to bend to a man’s will. • The Xerox commercial from the 1950s shows an extremely negative portrayal of women as a sex that is materialistic, simple, and only capable of doing the most basic and simplest of secretarial duties.

  8. Your Turn! • Watch the following video clips with a Feminist lens • TAKE NOTES! • You will pick ONE to do a brief analysis with.

  9. Leave it to Beaver • http://youtu.be/Pq_9wu-KjTk

  10. Klondike: Listening to Wife • http://youtu.be/TxC9-PJfyKo

  11. Mulan “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” • http://youtu.be/ZSS5dEeMX64

  12. Tostitos office commercial • http://youtu.be/JLwTY9oPIFo

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