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Kritik Sastra Feminis

Feminist literary criticism is an interdisciplinary approach that examines literature's reflection and shaping of gender stereotypes and cultural assumptions. It analyzes character portrayals, language, and societal commentary to reinterpret texts through a modern lens, emphasizing female representation and challenging patriarchal norms. Critics pose questions about gender dynamics, power relationships, and the implications of masculinity and femininity within literary works.

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Kritik Sastra Feminis

Feminist literary criticism is an interdisciplinary approach that examines literature's reflection and shaping of gender stereotypes and cultural assumptions. It analyzes character portrayals, language, and societal commentary to reinterpret texts through a modern lens, emphasizing female representation and challenging patriarchal norms. Critics pose questions about gender dynamics, power relationships, and the implications of masculinity and femininity within literary works.

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FEMINIST LITERARY

CRITICISM

Kritik Sastra dan Budaya Inggris


Program Studi Inggris
Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya Universitas Indonesia

Semester Gasal 2024-2025


FEMINISM
• An interdisciplinary approach to issues
of equality and equity based on gender,
gender expression, gender identity,
sex, and sexuality as understood
through social theories and political
activism = feminism as a method
• A movement to put an end to sexism,
sexist exploitation, and oppression and
to achieve full gender equality in law
and in practice = feminism as activism
• The belief that women are oppressed
or disadvantaged by comparison with
men, and that their oppression is in
some way illegitimate or unjustified =
feminism as a doctrine
FEMINIST (LITERARY) CRITICISM
Feminist literary
criticism recognizes that
literature both reflects and
shapes stereotypes and
other cultural assumptions;
thus, feminist literary
criticism examines how
works of literature embody
patriarchal attitudes or
undercut them, sometimes
both happening within the
same work.
FEMINIST (LITERARY) CRITICISM

Feminist criticism is
applied to literature by
examining the
characters' portrayals,
the text's language, the
author's attitude, and the
inter-character
relationships. Feminist
critics also consider the
author's apparent
commentary about
society as a whole.
FEMINIST (LITERARY) CRITICISM
Feminist criticism helps us reinterpret
old texts and view them from a
modernized lens; it adheres to
portraying women from a new
perspective and establishes the
importance of female representation in
literature, as well as contributes to
breaking gender stereotypes and
archaic ideas of the feminine while
shedding the light on the history of
female subjugation under patriarchal
norms.
PRACTICE OF FEMINIST CRITICISM
Some questions that feminist critics may ask include:
• How is the relationship between men and women portrayed?
• What are the power relationships between men and women?
• How are male and female roles defined?
• What constitutes masculinity and femininity?
• What does the work reveal about the operations (economic, political, social,
or psychological) of patriarchy?
• What does the work imply about the possibilities of sisterhood as a mode of
resisting patriarchy?
• What does the work say about women's creativity?
• What does the history of the work's reception by the public and by the critics
tell us about the operation of patriarchy?

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