Guess That Feminist?

1. Guess That Feminist? A Look Into the Brilliant Minds of the Feminist Movement

2. 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?

3. It’s virginiawoolf

4. 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?

5. It’s Kate Millett!

6. 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?

7. It’s elaineshowalter!

8. 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?

9. It’s gloriasteinem!

10. 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?

11. It’s marywollstonecraft!