Like post-structuralism itself, the feminist branch is in large part a tool for literary analysis, but it also deals in psychoanalysis and socio-cultural critique,[REF] and seeks to explore relationships between language, sociology, subjectivity and power-relations as they impact upon gender in particular [REF].
Poststructural feminism also seeks to criticize the kyriarchy, while not being limited by narrow understandings of kyriarchal theory, particularly through an analysis of the pervasiveness of othering, the social exile of those men and women removed from the narrow concepts of normal.