LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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How women are portrayed in literary texts
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The psychologies of female writers
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How women have been socially oppressed in literary texts
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All of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Feminist criticism, or gender studies, focuses on the role of women (or gender) in a literary text.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a social movement, feminist criticism highlights the various ways women, in particular, have been oppressed, suppressed, and repressed. It asks new questions of old texts. It develops and uncovers a female tradition in writing. It analyzes women writers and their works from female perspectives” (Copeland 184-186).
Detailed explanation-3: -Feminist literature portrays characters or ideas that attempt to change gender norms. It tends to examine, question, and argue for change against established and antiquated gender roles through the written word. Feminist literature strives to alter inequalities between genders across societal and political arenas.
Detailed explanation-4: -Feminist literature is fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry, which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal civil, political, economic, and social rights for women.