Title: A Guide into Feminist Theories and Criticism - A Research Guide for Students
Headings: A Simple Guide To Feminist Theories and Criticism
A Simple Guide To Feminist Theories and Criticism
Types of criticism
Constructive criticism
Projected criticism
Concerns in feminist criticism
Oppressed by patriarchy
Considered as secondary
Discrimination by cultures
Discrimination is everywhere including the literature
Definition of feminism
Definition and overview of feminist theory
First wave feminism
Second wave feminism
Third wave feminism

Content: This theory is extended in the meaning of theoretical, philosophical or fictional discourse based on the concept of feminism. Theories by feminists were introduced and developed gradually in the span of three centuries. It is called three waves of feminism by many theorists. First wave feminism
The first wave of feminism was started in the late 1700s and lasted till the early 1900s. It was mainly focused on how male authors and novelists view and portrait women in their works. It was also called the revolution against the unfair treatment of women by men of that time. Critics considered the way novelists discriminate and marginalize the women characters. Many authors supporting feminism have written books on feminist criticism. Some of them are Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), Marry Ellman’s Thinking About Women (1968) and Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics (1969). Authors like Mary Ellman, Kate Millet and Germaine Greer have played an important role in raising questions on the practice of showing feminism in the literature of their time and past.