A Lens of One’s Own:
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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
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& = 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.
The
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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