Feminist Crit PPT 5b192797a6f9d
Feminist Crit PPT 5b192797a6f9d
Feminist Crit PPT 5b192797a6f9d
CRITICISM AND
THEORY
LECTURE 8:
FEMINIST CRITICISM &
GENDER STUDIES
First-Wave Feminism (1848-1918) – 19. cent.
in the 19th century women were still dependent on
their parents and husbands financially
they were not free concerning their property, body
and consciousness with limited options in life
they mainly study at home (tutors), could not get a
university degree (or at some colleges from 1830s
in England; no sciences; first degree after the War)
political fight for their rights (e.g. Mary
Wollstonecraft for the franchise, +John Stuart Mill)
small victories: in 1857 the Matrimonial Course Bill
(Divorce Act) was passed
First-wave Feminism (1848-1918) – 20th cent.
suffragettes: militant and violent protesters with
marching and hungerstrikes, fighting for political
rights in London (e.g. Emmeline Pankhurst) –
in 1918: the right to vote was granted to women
suffragists: more pacifists calling for reforms in
education, divorce, birth control, and fashion
women worked in factories after men were
enlisted during First World War
image of the ‘New Woman’: independent and
threatening (see also in Late Victorian Age - the
vamp, and Ibsen’s Nora)
‘Dark Age’ of Feminism (1920s-30s) and Woolf