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FEMINIST CRITICISM AND

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Feminism and Literature, , » Feminist criticism is not an offshoot of Feminist, movement., , » Rather, Feminist movement arises out of a, literary phase- how women are portrayed in, literature, how many female writers are writing, as a profession, how is femininity perceived in, dominant literature etc., , - Hence, Feminism and Literature are intricately, related.

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Pioneer feminist writings, , - A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) by, Mary Wollstonecraft., , » Women and Labour (1911) by Olive Schreiner., - A Room of One’s Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf., - The Second Sex (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir.

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Feminine and Socialization, , - Toril Moi in one of her essays published in The, Feminist Reader points out that:, » Feminist- “Political Position”, » Female- “A matter of Biology”, , » Feminine- “A set of culturally defined, characters”, , Moi is concerned with how the feminine as a form, of Socialization is represented in literature.