Feminist Theory of Literary Criticism

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Theory of LIterature and Literary Criticism ............3 Contradistinction in Literary criticism .........7 Historical Reasons for the Rise Of Theory ..........8 Theory before theory .........10 From Criticism to theory ..........13 Feminist literary criticism ...........14 Features of Feminist criticism .........21 2. Theoretical Framework of Feminist literary Criticism ............35 Emergence of Feminism ..........38 Black feminism ..........44 Feminist critics contribution in Women`s liberation movement ................47 3. Feminist concern in Western LIterature ............69 A vindication of the Rights of Woman By Mary Wollstonecraft ........70 A room of One`s Own by Virginia Woolf ............83 The sencond Sex by Simone de Beauvoir ............96 4. Feminist concern in Indian Literature ...........115 Feminism in Indian Context as Compared with West .........116 An INtroduction by Kamala Das ..........118