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Gopa B. Caesar:
Ideas:
Feminist literary criticism is a political attack upon other modes of criticism and theory,and because of its social orientation it moves beyond traditional literary criticism.
Feminists believe that our culture is a patriarchal culture,that is,one organized in favor of the interests of men.
Feminist literary critics try to explain how what they term engendered power imbalances in a given culture are reflected,supported,or challenged by literary texts.
Feminist critics focus on absence of women from discourse as well as meaningful spaces opened by women’s discourse.
Feminist critics largely agree on a threefold purpose:to expose patriarchal premises and resulting prejudices,to promote discovery and reevaluation of literature by women,and to examine social,cultural,and psychosexual contexts of literature and criticism.
Feminist critics wish to make us act as feminist readers;that is,to create”new communities of writers and readers supported by a language spoken for and by women.”

Gopa B. Caesar:
Keywords:
Gender:
       There is an important distinction between sex and gender where sex describes biological or natural differences,while gender describes the social roles of masculinity and femininity,so gender is socially constructed.
Patriarchy:
       This was originally an anthropological term which describes a social system in which older men are entitled to exercise socially sanctioned authority over other members of the household or kinship group,both women and younger men.

Conditioning

The difference betweenfemale and feminine etc.

Gopa B. Caesar:
Part  6   Cultural Studies

Times:
       
       Cultural studies formally began with the establishing of “Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies” in Birmingham University in 1964, then this method spread all over the world ,and is also active today.

Gopa B. Caesar:
Members
Founders:
Raymond Williams(1921-1988)
Richard Hoggart(1918-)
Edward Palmer Thompson (1924-1993)
Adherent:
Stuart Hall(1932-)
Richard Johnson
Ien Ang
Tony Bennett
John Fiske()

Gopa B. Caesar:
Works
Raymond Williams:
The Long Revolution(1965)
Communications(1962)
Technology and Cultural Form(1974)
Culture(1981)
The Country and the City(1973)
Richard Hoggart:
The Uses of Literacy(1958)
Edward Palmer Thompson:
The Making of the English Working Class(1968)
Stuart Hall:
The Popular Arts(1964,with Paddy Whamel)
Resistance Through Rituals(1976,ed with T.Jefferson)
Ien Ang:
Watching Dallas(1985)
John Fiske:
Understanding Popular Culture(1989)
Television Culture(1987)

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