Feminist Approaches to Literature
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This section brings together resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about the political aspects of literature.
You may want to start by reading the 'Feminist Approaches to Literature' essay:
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | English and Gender | Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by… | Deborah Cameron |
| 32 | Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if… | Annabell James |
| 33 | The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster | In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates… | Emma Smith |
| 34 | The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker | Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy… | Emma Smith |