Why is feminism talked about so much? Why does it seem to be an important – sometimes the most important, and sometimes the only – factor to look at? Based on the ideas which are stated by Gilbert, i think the answers could be related with feminism and even more to do with the history of gender. Idea of gender happens in cultures where gender configurations undergo changes and budges. Here, the gender configuration refers to social meaning systems that encode sexual difference. Besides, the same is true about idea of race, economics or politic, etc. What’s more, these concepts are reevaluated when social practice shifts. As the result, gender or masculine and feminism qualities, or male and female social roles will come up as an area for us to analysis whenever gender roles are shifting. Besides, gender is often a major focus of deliberation and script when gender roles look as if to change in relation to all kind factors.
In nineteenth century, it also ever-present as a topic of study because of our capacity to deconstruct gender categories and also to defamiliarize what has formerly been seen as natural. In the nineteenth century in
Britain
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America
, gender was considered as a matter of public discussion and disputation. Based on the writer’s standpoint, the idea of The Woman Question was focused on whether gender should be a factor in granting or limiting right. Also, it was focused attention on male and man social roles instead of questioning the nature and function of gender. Gender became a central feature of all cultures because gender stands as a differentiation on the basis of sex between social roles and functions labelled as masculine and feminine. Here, Gilbert categorizes the definition of feminism into three parts.
First, a feminist is referred to someone who is interested in studying and understanding gender as a system of cultural signs to sexually-dimorphic bodies and also who sees these cultural symbols that stand for gender as having a direct effect on our individual lives and social dealing.
Secondly, a feminist is also considered as someone who sees the gender systems presently in operation as structured by a basis opposition such as masculine and feminine idea. Usually, masculine always has indulgence over the other term and as the result enable men to get position of social power more often than women.
Lastly, a feminist is a person who thinks the above points are wrong and should be changed. This description makes feminism into a kind of academic pursuit, and gives a place to all feminist to study about gender relation. Besides, there is also a political side to feminism which not only to study and scrutinize it but to change it.
Michael Delahoyde also has his own standpoints about this theory which is feminism. Based on his point of views, Feminist literary criticism arises in conjunction with socio-political feminism, appraisals patriarchal language and literature by exposing how these mirror masculine ideology. Also, the term feminist examines gender politic in works and traces the subtle construction of masculinity and femininity. What’s more, feminists also focus on language chooses in any genres. For sure, there is stylistic difference in women’s writing compare to men’s masterpiece. The feminists also notice that women and men be predisposed to communicate differently.
As well, feminist criticism concerns itself with stereotypes depictions of genders. By tracing history of relatively unknown or underrated women writers, it can earn them their impartial place within the literary canon. It also able to help and construct a climate in which women’s ingenuity may be fully realized and appreciated.
So, for me, Gilbert clarifies feminism into three parts and states the environment of feminist theory which is related to certain issues such as biasness, political issues and gender. Michael also includes certain elements such as socio-political feminism, critiques, patriarchal language and literature which are related to the feminist literary criticism. In this sense, Feminist Theory is surrounded by various factors such as biasness, political demission, patriarchal and so forth. Again, Gilbert brings up that this state of affair will be crucial when our culture is able to think of construct and foreground all the issues about feminism and keeps it as a natural mental picture among our society. Thus our thought system and world will view the idea of construction as a various system or as created. In this sense, our culture views that gender category as not a natural or eternal category but it is alterable.
This state of affair shows that women try to express their experience and their role in literary works by composing their own style of writing to illustrate everything under the sun. Conversely, in male’s writing, each word seems to jump from one stanza to another stanza. (Male’s poem- why this can be happened? do read my 1st blog). Conversely, in male’s writing, each word seems to jump from one stanza to another stanza. The connection which bound it up is vogue compare to women’s masterpieces. What’s more, the tone of poem seems to be more colourful and soft.
From my point of view, i am able to see and determine ( i do not mean to show off, but i just want to share what i know about some issues which circulate around the world of gender and i hope that all of you are in the same shoe i do- little bit about the gender in writing,) the role of female in female’s literary work and also in male’s literary work by using such elements, Again the issues of biasness hardly avoid in any literary works. So, again we back to the dirt, why? because, we cannot run from the emblem of gender in our daily routine. And u still do not agree with me, do you? Well, why is SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE the theory of FEMINISM in human epistles?
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