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Pizza rolls, not gender roles! Feminist Criticism Pizza rolls, not gender roles!

Key Terms Patriarchy – male- dominated power structures Misogyny – hatred of women Gender-role stereotyping – a series of norms and behaviors based on gender

Questions for the Feminist Critic How does the portrayal of women in so-called classic literature (the canon) illustrate a patriarchal ideology? How are women stereotyped? What female authors have been ignored or marginalized by the patriarchy? How do texts written by women subvert a patriarchal social order?

Basic Tenets of Feminist Criticism Feminist literary criticism is a product of the 1960s feminist movement and concerns itself with the representation of women in literary canon (works typically written by men) as an expression of the social norms governing women. In every domain where patriarchy reigns (economic, social, political, psychological), woman is marginalized. Judeo-Christian western civilization is deeply rooted in patriarchal ideology, beginning with the biblical portrayal of Adam and Eve.

Polarization of the Female Good (spiritual) Serve the Interest of the Hero Evil (material) Foil the Hero Virgin Wife Mother Angel Soul Mate Goddess Whore Spinster Barren Temptress Madwoman (rhymes with?) Witch

Feminism and Language The existent language in literature is male-centered (phallocentric) language. Female language is considered intellectually inferior, emotional, and irrational. The patriarchy feels threatened by female discourse. Women must choose between adopting the male-dominated discourse or remaining silent.

Misogyny in Vocabulary Dictionary Definition Word Etymology hysteria : a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions hysteria (adj.) 1610s, "characteristic of hysteria," from Latin hystericus "of the womb," from Greek hysterikos "of the womb, suffering in the womb," from hystera "womb" (see hysteria). Originally defined as a neurotic condition peculiar to women and thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus. With abstract noun ending -ia. General sense of "unhealthy emotion or excitement" is by 1839.

Woman = Weakness

Wedding = worth

Binary Language Masculine Feminine Father Sun Head Action Reason Light Anger Mother Moon Heart Passivity Emotion Dark Madness

Remember Philomela “A life of feminine submission, of 'contemplative purity,' is a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story, while a life of female rebellion, of 'significant action,' is a life that must be silenced, a life whose monstrous pen tells a terrible story.” ― Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination