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Feminism for Dummies

Feminism for Dummies. Christian Wood English 2700 Kati Lewis. What is critical theory of Feminism?.

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Feminism for Dummies

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  1. Feminism for Dummies Christian Wood English 2700 Kati Lewis

  2. What is critical theory of Feminism? The critical theory of feminism isn’t the political movement, feminism. So what is feminism as a critical theory? (According to Dr. Kristi Siegel site http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm#feminism) • Theories having an essentialist focus (including psychoanalytic and French feminism); • Theories aimed at defining or establishing a feminist literary canon or theories seeking to re-interpret and re-vision literature (and culture and history and so forth) from a less patriarchal slant (including gynocriticism, liberal feminism); and • Theories focusing on sexual difference and sexual politics (including gender studies, lesbian studies, cultural feminism, radical feminism, and socialist/materialist feminism).

  3. The “Others”

  4. Control

  5. Religion

  6. All together!!!

  7. So why do we look at the Critical Theory of Feminism?

  8. Sources of pictures and information • http://www.brittangoetz.com/blog/all-together-now.html • http://chinadailymail.com/2012/02/28/february-28-1993-atf-raid-branch-davidian-in-waco-texas/ • http://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144 • http://www.good.is/posts/poor-people-not-poor-countries

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