A Lens of One’s Own:

Deborah ApplemanCarleton College

Of Yellow Wallpaper and

Beautiful Little Fools

We don’t know what woman’s vision is.

What do women’s eyes see? How do they

carve, invent, decipher the world? I don’t

know. I know my own vision, the vision of one

woman, but the world seen through the eyes

of others? I only know what men’s eyes see.

Viviane Forrester, New French Feminisms

Teaching Literary Theoryto High School Students

i Feminist Literary Theory

g 5 year project

i Urban & Suburban schools

g All levels of classes

i 5 teachers

g Literary Theories

i Reader Response

i Marxist Literary Theory

i Deconstruction

WHY STUDY FEMINIST THEORY NOW?

FEMINISTFe m i n I s t FEMINIST

THEORY

HOW FEMINIST THEORY TRANSFORMS READING

1. female characters author’s stance

2. author’s gender

3. whole texts

4. gendered patterns in the world

Changing the way

we view

female characters

Sh

e

& = e

he = ele

she = ela

EPITHALAMIUM–II

S = serpens

h = homo

e = eva

SOME RESPONSES TO

YELLOW WALLPAPER

Maria

and

David

MOUNT RUSHMORE

A woman should have been President by now.

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Madonna’s Lingerie

Reading

the

text

of

our

lives

Gender Tales

“Feminist criticism is a political act whose aim is not simply to interpret the world but to change it, by

changing the consciousness of

those who read and their relation to what

they read.” Fetterley, 1978,p.xxii

Due out in August!

power point presentation by:

alice&leon

kate meyers, designer

st. paul, minnesota