Title: What Is the Feminist Approach to Literary Criticism? | Pen and the Pad
Headings: What Is the Feminist Approach to Literary Criticism?
What Is the Feminist Approach to Literary Criticism?
Historical Origins of the Movement
Challenges to the Literary Canon
Textual Analysis

Content: In some ways, this approach to literary criticism assumes that there is an unconscious transference of previously held assumptions to the text through the act of writing. What is written reveals what society believes. Influenced by the rise of post-modernism, feminist literary critics believe that the act of writing is not neutral, instead it is influenced by the values of the writer who then transfers those values to the text, often unintentionally. By understanding these values, feminist literary critics hope to reveal these subconscious ideas to show how women have been marginalized in literature. References
"Feminist Literary Criticism: Explorations in Theory"; Josephine Donovan; 2nd ed.; University of Kentucky Press, 1989
NWSA Journal; " Feminist Literary Criticism: