Post on 23-Dec-2015
GUESS THAT FEMINIST?
A Look Into the Brilliant Minds of the Feminist Movement
From Britain and worked in the country as a teacher
Wrote her powerful work A Room of One’s Own declaring that men treat women as inferiors and they must reject social ideals for femaleness to define themselves
A Room of One’s Own centers on a story in which Shakespeare’s sister who is equally talented and gifted as writer is stifled for being a woman
WHO AM I?
IT’S VIRGINIA WOOLF
Part of the second wave feminist movement in the late 60’s and 70’s
Wrote Sexual Politics and brought forth the assertion that a female is born and a woman created
Says that sexual politics are the operations of power relations in society and that in the West, institutional power rests with the man
WHO AM I?
IT’S KATE MILLETT!
Broke down female writing into three phases: femine, feminist, and female
Brought forth the idea of gynocriticism and gynocritics which focuses on the study of the female experience
Classifies gynocritics into four models: the biological, the linguistic, the psychoanalytic and the cultural models.
WHO AM I?
IT’S ELAINE SHOWALTER!
Is Christian Bale’s stepmother Was deeply involved in the women’s
liberation movement and founded the National Women’s Political Caucus
Has written many prolific books and articles with a feminist approach including Revolution from Within and Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
WHO AM I?
IT’S GLORIA STEINEM!
Was Mary Shelly’s mother Wrote The Vindication of the Rights of
Woman in an attempt to create equality between men and women in the academic setting
One of the founding mothers of the feminist movement as a member of the first wave of feminism
WHO AM I?
IT’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT!