Feminisms

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Feminisms

• 1. women's positions in patriarchal society and
  discourses
• 2. history of feminist movement writings
• 3. Feminisms and Gender Studies Radical
  Feminism, French Feminism, Post-Feminism, Lesbian
  Feminism, Taiwanese Feminisms
• 4. Examples

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Feminist strategies Examples

• Social/
• Theoretical
• Gender equality in public sphere
• A. Separatism, lesbianism
• B. Sexual Liberation

• Literary Criticism
• Sexual Politics in traditional lit. Androgyny
• A. Exclusive focus only on womens writings
• B. Celebrating femininity, feminine writing
  and desire

Gender Studies
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Feminist Artistic strategies Some Examples

• Critiques reveal gender biases ??
• Empower female characters and their works
  Examples Granny Weatherall
• Celebrating femininity Discovering Female
  Desire The Piano Georgia O'Keeffe???
• feminine writing Films by Lea Pool and Rozema,
  poems by ??
• Revising tradition??
• Open accusation Barbara Kruger

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Feminist Artistic strategies Some Postmodern
Examples

• Dual language ventriloquist?
• Open accusation Barbara Kruger
  (accusationmimicry)????
• Revising male texts/tradition such as fairy tales
  to allow female space Atwoods Blue Beards
  Egg ???
• Irony Rape Fantasies ???
• Parody some feminist paintings??????
• Parody intertexuality Mermaids
• Mimicry Cindy Sherman, Madonna