ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

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Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of first-wave feminism?
A
Hélène Cixous
B
Judith Butler
C
Lucy Irigaray
D
Mary Wollstonecraft
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Wollstonecraft was a renowned women’s rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, a classic of rationalist feminism that is considered the earliest and most important treatise advocating equality for women.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th-century English writer, advocate, and feminist philosopher who produced critical works such as “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ” which asserted that women deserved the same educational, economic, and political rights as men.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (d.1902) drafted the Seneca Falls Declaration outlining the new movement’s ideology and political strategies. In its early stages, feminism was interrelated with the temperance and abolitionist movements and gave voice to now-famous activists like the African-American Sojourner Truth (d.

Detailed explanation-4: -Notable mainstream activists included Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. Less mainstream but similarly important views came from Sojourner Truth, a formerly enslaved Black woman, and Emma Goldman, the nation’s leading anarchist during the late 19th century.

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