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1 Akilah Lawrence Bashira Daania Sylvette Mikell January 8th 2013
Gender Criticism Akilah Lawrence Bashira Daania Sylvette Mikell January 8th 2013

2 Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls I do adore...
Let's Talk About Sex Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls I do adore... Feminist Criticism gave way to Gender Criticism "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Go hand in hand, but there are some distinctions

3 Key Terms Complicated Continuum Misnomer Gender Sex Essentialist
Constructionist Verisimilitude Androcentric Sodomite

4 Feminists vs Gender Criticism
Feminist criticism is gender criticism Gender criticism is not women centered Views females and males in complicated continuum Criticize gender as we commonly conceive it Expose its insufficiency and inadequacy

5 Gender vs Sex Distinction between feminists and gender criticism
Difference among women... within women Sex is what you are born Gender is what you become

6 Essentialist vs Constructionist
Essentialist: women are basically different from men Constructionist: differences are characteristics not of the nature but of the nurture Differences between men and women - not anatomical Feminists celebrate women's differences Men see difference as a symptom of oppression

7 There is a relationship between ...
Gender and Textuality There is a relationship between ... Men and women become after they are born The way in which they write Women write as men, men write as women Women read as men, men read as women

8 Homosexuality Sexuality is a complex subject Gender system
Are you straight?

9 What's on your Mind ? "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"
-Simone de Beauvoir (Critique gender and how the world is perceived .)

10 Work Cited Murfin,Ross. "Gender Criticism and The Turn of the Screw" in Beidler, Peter. (Editor)The Turn of the Screw. James, Henry, and Peter G. Beidler. The Turn of the Screw: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Boston: Bedford-St. Martins, Print.


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