Ebook: The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory

During the last decade, our academic, literary, and cultural institutions
. have all felt the impact of a feminist critical revolution. Feminist criticism
has flourished in combination with every other critical approach from
formalism to semiotics, and in the literary study of every period and genre from
the Middle Ages to the mass media. Since the late 1960s, when feminist
criticism developed as part of the international women's movement, the assumptions
of literary study have been profoundly altered.