Vocab
What is the umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual?
queer
Reading "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga as a celebration of the gay experience is an example of which criticism?
gender criticsm
What is subjective gender criticism heavily reliant on?
textual evidence
What is the term for the self-hatred some gay people experience?
interalized homophobia
Books like Red, White & Royal Blue, Heartstopper, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo are additions to what canon of literary works?
queer canon
What kind of interpretations of literature does gender criticism try to correct?
heterocentric
What is the term for the idea that homosexuality and heterosexuality are products of social forces?
social constructionism
What TV show can be analyzed through the lens of gender criticism as a reflection of how drag performance redefines sexuality within mainstream pop culture?
Rupaul's Drag Race
Do all gender critics interpret works in the same way?
no
The Tempest can be considered: ______(which vocab word meaning male oriented in thinking and vocabulary?)
phallogocentric
True or false. The songs, "Most girls" by Hailee Steinfeld, "Like a Girl" by Lizzo, and "Run the World (Girls)" by Beyoncé are all songs that reinforce patriarchal ideology.
false
All feminist activity, including feminist theory and literary criticism, has the goal to change the world by promoting women's _________?
equality
What are approaches that attempt to develop a specifically female framework for analysis of women’s writing?
Gynocriticism
How does the movie, Little Women, answer the following questions?
What does the work imply about the possibilities of sisterhood as a mode of resisting patriarchy and/or about the ways in which women's situations in the world (economic, political, social, or psychological) might be improved?
The sisters encourage each other to fight against traditional gender stereotypes and boundaries. They gain the confidence to break society's norms for women, and they all determine their own path.
The ultimate goal of feminist criticism is to increase our understanding of women's ________ and promote our appreciation of women's ________ in the world.
experiences; value