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Feminist criticism is the most widely applicable critical perspective for A-Level English Literature. Almost every text you study — from Shakespeare to Atwood — can be illuminated by feminist analysis. This lesson introduces the key concepts, thinkers, and methods of feminist literary criticism and shows you how to apply them with precision and confidence.
Feminist criticism examines how literature represents gender — how it constructs, reinforces, challenges, or subverts ideas about masculinity and femininity, and how power relations between genders are reflected in literary texts.
It is not a single, unified theory but a collection of related approaches with shared concerns:
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