... grasp the underlying concept of feminist theatre, its successes as a genre and the challenges it faces in contrast with mainstream theatrical forms, it is essential to begin with a definition of terms. What is feminist theatre? Is it concerned with women as performers, women dramatists or playwrights? Consider this striking description: "Generally speaking, feminists involved in the creation or analysis of ... Drive. This being the case, feminist plays through their diversity, expand the definition of what feminist theatre is and must be given adequate room to express themselves without...

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... female authors who have inherited patriarchal values - bury in their books. To read the canon is perforce to identify as male. It insists on its universality in specifically male terms. As she puts it aptly, "Feminist criticism is a political act whose aim is not simply to interpret the world but to change it by changing the consciousness of ... structures of literature by women. Its subjects include the psychodynamics of female creativity; linguistics and the problem of a female language; the trajectory of the individual or collective female literary career; literary history; and, of cou...

• Word Count: 1975
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... a rhetorician whose criticism and theories had a major impact on many American writers and thinkers in the mid-twentieth century. A prominent intellectual in New York literary circles beginning in the 1920's, Burke was a poet, essayist, reviewer, novelist, translator, social commentator, and writer of short stories. His ever-fertile ... point that seemed little relevant. Burkes seemed to let everyone around him know that he was a perfectionist. A perfectionist might seek to evolve terms free of ambiguity and inconsistency .In the world that we live in; it is astonishing to say that socie...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... style of a contemporary author whose works may be considered classics in due time. In light of this, this critique shall use the Feminist Literary Theory. This theory, according to Carol Pajaron of the Ateneo de Manila High School English Department, compares and contrasts females in literature with common ... in economic power gives Laura a certain preeminence in their relationship. The irony, however, is that she did not use this power to dictate terms within the relationship. Instead, Rob used her wealth as a means of abusing her. It seemed at times that Rob was in the relationship b...

• Word Count: 2791
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... John who maintains that the only way to overcome her illness is with complete rest and the suspension of her work as a writer, like Mitchell's methods suggest. Annette Kolodny, a feminist literary critic and current professor at the University of Arizona, explains being "isolated from conversational exchanges " combined with "prohibited free access to pen and paper" causes "the [narrator] of ˜ ... writing on the "dead paper " within her journal, John's opposition to her writing forces the narrator to take that energy and closely observe the symbolic patterns in the wallpaper instead. L...

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... International Relations, First World-to-First World or First World-to-Third World nations alike, has been marred by both physical and diplomatic conflict, commonly involving male-dominant (in terms of government) states. Beckman once again reinforce this in his suggestion that irrelevant of gender, the political reactions, responses and thought processes of a leader of a state should ... when associated with issues of war and national security, but in accordance with realism's doctrine little else. The recognition of power, independence, rationality, and objectivity as valuable terms an...

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... enhanced this stigmatization by suggesting that nature granted men superiority over women: "I would a thousand times rather have a homely girl, simply brought up, than a learned lady and a wit who would make a literary circle of my house and install herself as president. A female wit is a scourge to her husband, her children, her friends, her servants, to everybody. From the lofty height of her ... to deliberate and to reason." To reasonably apply this theory to humans, it is necessary to include both sexes. The implications of this philosophy is further made clear: "Explanations in ter...

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... women of color face, Crenshaw introduces an intersectional framework. Structural intersectionality addresses the ways in which women of color are affected by both racist and sexist structures of discrimination. In terms of abusive situations, the discrimination they face, affect their ability to escape abuse, receive intervention and access crisis centers. Political intersectionality addresses how politics that treat race and gender as ... was the first group to be prosecuted for obscenity, despite the prevalence of similar obscenity in popular live performances. 2 Live Crew's work also...

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... of view of showing the width and the diversity of this field. However, one issue seems to outstand from the topics of post-colonialism with its importance and influence on literary theory and it is the issue of feminism. Feminist theory and post-colonial theory have much in common; women and the colonised races and cultures both share the politics of ... tried to dignify the past and women's issue was ignored or only used as a means to restore African self-confidence. Thus the role of women was described in more positive terms than it should have been done and they were portrayed as "ha...

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... , went on a few dates, and taught herself to touch-type. Friedan then won the school's best actress award for her performance as madwoman in Jane Eyre and helped start the literary magazine, Tide. During the fall of 1939, Friedan left for Smith, a women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was inspired to attend this college because it was the same college that ... Friedan an influential spokeswoman for the women's movement nationally, but also internationally. In 1974 she had an audience with Pope Paul VI and argued the Catholic Church to "come to terms with the full personhood ...

• Word Count: 2055
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• Grade Level: High School