Hilarious Moments in Feminist Criticism
Oct. 27th, 2009 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodygranuaileFrom Johns Hopkins' article on second-wave feminism (the 1960s and 70s):
In "What Can a Heroine Do? Or, Why Women Can’t Write" Joanna Russ inverted the sex of protagonists in order to demonstrate that plots were gendered: "A young girl in Minnesota finds her womanhood by killing a bear" and "A young man who unwisely puts success in business before his personal fulfillment loses his masculinity and ends up as a neurotic, lonely eunuch" (3).
I would just like to say that I would TOTALLY read a book about a young girl killing a bear.
In "What Can a Heroine Do? Or, Why Women Can’t Write" Joanna Russ inverted the sex of protagonists in order to demonstrate that plots were gendered: "A young girl in Minnesota finds her womanhood by killing a bear" and "A young man who unwisely puts success in business before his personal fulfillment loses his masculinity and ends up as a neurotic, lonely eunuch" (3).
I would just like to say that I would TOTALLY read a book about a young girl killing a bear.