A Lens of One

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A Lens of Ones Own
Of Yellow Wallpaper and Beautiful Little Fools

Deborah Appleman Carleton College
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We dont know what womans vision is. What do
womens eyes see? How do they carve, invent,
decipher the world? I dont know. I know my own
vision, the vision of one woman, but the world
seen through the eyes of others? I only know what
mens eyes see. Viviane Forrester, New French
Feminisms
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Teaching Literary Theory
to High School Students
g 5 year project
i Urban Suburban schools
g All levels of classes
i 5 teachers
g Literary Theories
i Reader Response
i Marxist Literary Theory
i Deconstruction
i Feminist Literary Theory
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WHY STUDY FEMINIST THEORY NOW?
SIBLEY
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FEMINIST
FEMINIST
Fe m i n I s t
THEORY
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HOW FEMINIST THEORY TRANSFORMS READING
1. female characters 2 authors stance
2. authors gender
3. whole texts
4. gendered patterns in the world
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Changing the way we view female characters
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EPITHALAMIUMII
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S serpens h homo e eva
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SOME RESPONSES TO YELLOW WALLPAPER

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Maria and David
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MOUNT RUSHMORE
A woman should have been President by now.
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The Miss America Pageant
The Miss America Pageant
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Madonnas
Lingerie
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Gender Tales
Reading the text of our lives
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Feminist criticism is a political act whose aim
is not simply to interpret the world but to
change it, by changing the consciousness of those
who read and their relation to what they read.
Fetterley, 1978,p.xxii
Conclusion
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Due out in August!
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power point presentation by aliceleon kate
meyers, designer st. paul, minnesota