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Unit 24: Features of Feminist Criticism

24.6 Key-Words Notes

1. Aesthetic of suffering : The reduction of women to the status of passive victims
2. Orientalism : Said’s coinage to describe the reductive way in which the West has
represented the East so as to colonise and exploit it

24.7 Review Questions
1. Outline the structures of power mentioned in the conversation between Anne Elliot and Captain
Harville that feminist theories challenge.
2. What are the implications of the distinction between sex and gender as set by feminist theories?
3. Use ‘An Introduction’ to discuss the problems faced by feminist theories.
Answers: Self-Assessment
1. (i)(c) (ii)(a)

24.8 Further Readings

1. Ruthven, K.K. Feminist literary studies : an Introduction. 1984, repr. Cambridge,
C.U.P., 1990.
2. Morris, Pam. Literature and Feminism: An Introduction. Oxford : Blackwell, 1993.
3. Walder, Dennis (ed.) Literature in the Modern World : Critical Essays and Documents.
Oxford : O.U.P., 1990.

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