[The first act of a feminist critic is] to become a resisting rather than an assenting reader and, by this refusal to assent, to begin the process of exorcizing the male mind that has been implanted in us."1 On the thematic level, then, the reader rejects stereotypes and examines woman as a theme in literary works. ... According to Elaine Showalter (in 20th Century Literary Theory, p. 216 - 220)3, gynocriticism is concerned with "woman as the producer of textual meaning, with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women. ... Critical Strategies Feminist Criticism func...

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