... feminists, and lesbian feminists have stressed that women are not defined solely by the fact that they are female; other attributes (such as religion, class, and sexual orientation) are also important, making the problems and goals of one group of women different from those of another. From here we see that feminist criticism is by definition gender criticism because of its ... based upon an objective or scientific aesthetic assessment of formal elements. Rather, as David Cowles6 has noted, one important feminist motto is that "'the personal is political'"; hence, feminist criticism is ...

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