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“It’s a Thundering Through Thursday!” November 3, 2011 Mr. Houghteling. AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION. Review Gender Criticism The Men and Women Chart Oral Reading. AGENDA. Gender Critical Perspective.
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“It’s a Thundering Through Thursday!” November 3, 2011 Mr. Houghteling AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
Review Gender Criticism The Men and Women Chart Oral Reading AGENDA
Gender Critical Perspective • Gender interpretation focuses on relationships between genders, including patterns of thought, behavior, and power in relationships between and within the sexes. • For example, a gender reading of Cinderella may take into account the idea of power relationships between the men and women of the novel.
“Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children, or for any one. Then had followed a rather heated argument; the two women did not appear to understand each other or to be speaking the same language” (47). Gender Criticism and The awakening
About Edna: “The sentiment which she entertained for Robert in now way resembled that which she felt for her husband” (47). • About Edna: “[Edna’s thoughts and emotions]…belonged to her and were her own and…she had a right to them and that they concerned no one but herself” (47). Gender Criticism and The awakening
Leonce: “I came…to talk to you about Edna. I don’t know what ails her” (65). Leonce: “She’s got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women” (65). Gender Criticism and The awakening
Please read and annotate until you finish the book! HOMEWORK