British feminist critics regarded their own critical practice as more political than that of North American feminists, emphasizing an engagement with historical process in order to promote social change. ... Critical Strategies Feminist Criticism functions to facilitate the awakening of human consciousness to the gender-delimiting elements of human experience that are often dramatized in literature. ... This type of critical discourse often takes an explicitly and aggressively ideological stance, stressing the important contribution of literature and literary c...

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The theory that I am using to explain my arguments is critical feminist which is a theory to the extent it is persuaded that women have been unjustly unequal to men because of the social meaning of their bodies. It is critical of gender because it is women who differentially suffer from the distinction of sex (Costa and Guthrie). ... I take the stance that I do believe that women should have more opportunity when it comes to playing in men's leagues as well as having more coverage in sports. ...

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Dalloway from moral judgments that call Woolf's stance wholly nihilistic." (Bloom, Modern Critical Views: Virginia Woolf pp. 1-6) Woolf was motivated by her feminist causes in writing To The Lighthouse and Mrs. ...

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