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A Lens of One’s Own:

A Lens of One’s Own:. Of Yellow Wallpaper and Beautiful Little Fools. Deborah Appleman Carleton College. We don’t know what woman’s vision is.

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A Lens of One’s Own:

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  1. A Lens of One’s Own: Of Yellow Wallpaper and Beautiful Little Fools Deborah Appleman Carleton College

  2. We don’t know what woman’s vision is. What do women’s eyes see? How do they carve, invent, decipher the world? I don’t know. I know my own vision, the vision of one woman, but the world seen through the eyes of others? I only know what men’s eyes see. Viviane Forrester, New French Feminisms

  3. Teaching Literary Theory to High School Students g 5 year project i Urban & Suburban schools g All levels of classes i 5 teachers g Literary Theories i Reader Response i Marxist Literary Theory i Deconstruction i Feminist Literary Theory

  4. WHY STUDY FEMINIST THEORY NOW? SIBLEY

  5. FEMINIST Fe m i n I s t FEMINIST THEORY

  6. HOW FEMINIST THEORY TRANSFORMS READING 1.female characters2author’s stance 2.author’s gender 3.whole texts 4.gendered patterns in the world

  7. Changing the way we view female characters

  8. S &= e he = ele she = ela Ú EPITHALAMIUM–II h S = serpens h = homo e = eva e

  9. SOME RESPONSES TO YELLOW WALLPAPER

  10. Maria and David

  11. MOUNT RUSHMORE A woman should have been President by now.

  12. The Miss America Pageant The Miss America Pageant

  13. Madonna’s Lingerie

  14. Gender Tales Reading the text of our lives

  15. “Feminist criticism is apolitical act whose aim is not simply to interpret the world but to change it, by changing the consciousness of those who read and their relation to what they read.” Fetterley, 1978,p.xxii Conclusion

  16. Due out in August!

  17. power point presentation by: alice&leon kate meyers, designer st. paul, minnesota

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