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!