The feminist analysis allows us, as current readers, to judge, contrast and to compare the different social values and status of women in the Elizabethan times. ... The racist characters include Iago, Roderigo, Brabantio and Emilia. ... Brabantio: " to the sooty bosom / Of such a thing as thou" Another character who is racist towards Othello is Emilia. ... Throughout the play, the male characters are the ones which help feminists identify the values and beliefs towards women in Elizabethan times. Each male character's speech at one point of the play or another submitted certain vie...

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The feminist reader should identify with female characters and their concerns. The object is to provide a critique of phallocentric assumptions and an analysis of patriarchal visions or ideologies inscribed in a literature that is male-centered and male-dominated. ... (i) "Feminist critique," - examining how women characters are portrayed, exposing the patriarchal ideology implicit in the so-called classics, and demonstrating that attitudes and traditions reinforcing systematic masculine dominance are inscribed in the literary canon. ... The Socio-Political Approach of what is sometimes term...

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All of these women portray many insights into feminist theory, some putting forth a more realistic position, others presenting a weaker analysis of female oppression. ... In Smith's words, " Issues are formulated because they are administratively relevant, not because they are significant first in the experience of those who live them...The kinds of facts...that matter to sociologists have already been shaped and given their character and substance by the methods and practice[s] of [these governing institutions]. ...

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