feminist

"As we see in this analysis, one of the problems of the feminist critique is that is male - oriented. If we study stereotypes of women, the sexism of male critics, and the limited roles women play in literary history, we are not learning what women have felt and experienced, but what men have thought women should be."(148) This is the critque on The Mayor of Casterbridge and she goes on to say this about most works. I would have to agree to her to some extent in this passage because if a man is writing the story, oviously he is making the women how he wants her to be. But it just so happens that he was in a time and place when women were treated differently then today. There aren't a lot of movies that I have seen that a man sells his wife and daughter anymore unless it's a slave movie.

"Gynocritics begin at the point when we free ourselves from the linear absolutes of male literary history, stop trying to fit women between the lines of male tradition, and focus instead on the newly visible world of female culture."(149) I looked up gynocritic in the dictionary and it wasen't even in there. But to some degree I see her point but I don't fully agree, maybe beacuse I'm not a women I dont see the male 'oppression' as much but it has to be some out there if there are countless women not writing and commenting on feminists critiques. But the thing is with all types of readings either in a marxist or feminist or whatever else will be invented, it's going to be biased just like the person who wrote the original text that they are reading. Nobody has the exact same views as anybody else, so what is the point of constantly getting worked up over some guys story about selling his wife and daughter. If he sold his son, I wouldn't care, he could sell himself and I wouldn't think twice about it in a male critique.