Title: What is a feminist approach to literature? - Quora
Headings: What is a feminist approach to literature?
What is a feminist approach to literature?
Himanshi Sharma
Anubhav Jain
Frederic Christie
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Deepak Biswas
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William Smith

Content: So to be very brief: if a text aspires to be feminist it must treat its characters without gender bias. Please note that this doesn't mean that the characters in the text can't be conservative, or assholes, or patriarchal; it simply means that the arc of a character is not influenced by the author's gender bias but rather emerges from out of their situation and how the story has progressed. Now to the more comprehensive part of the answer. A feminist approach to literature from the position of a reader, or a literary critic would entail reading a text in terms of how it treats its women/queer characters. To give an example, if a character is just referred to as the wife of a character and appears in the plot only in relation to the needs of a male character, or if most women characters are one-dimensional even though the male characters are painted as complex human beings we can safely say that the author is limited and unimaginative when it comes to writing female characters. The issue is important because for most of history, women characters have always occupied the background while their male counterparts went on ambitious voyages, conquests and plunders and led colourful lives in words. Of course feminist literary studies doesn't stop there. In all good literature, the surface is only the beginning of the journey;