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Welcome to read my blog. Here this thinking activity is about feminism.Here in this blog I discussed feminism with two women feminist, one is showalter and another one is Gayatri Spivak. Click here to get more information about this thinking activity.
Elain showalter is a writer. Elaine Showalter is an American literary,critic and femeni, She wrote many work on women situation and the situation of Victorian age -s women their rights. Some of her work are..:
She also wrote other work. She is very famous poet.
When we see the work of showalter ,her works are upon the women, she also find the work on women in history and found the situation of female. Showalter sketch some characterized women's writing like, awaking, suffering, her unhappiness and metrophobia.
She alsi trace the history women's literature,and also divided into three phases :
1) The feminine phase
2) The feminist phase
3) The female phase
Ex: Frankenstein. Showalter illustrated how Victorian doctors reduced the concepts of insanity and hysteria to a specifically female complaint, yet the sensibility of the early 19th century Steel could attribute hysteria symptoms to men.
Gayatri Spivak
Gayatri spivak is an Indian scholar. She is feminist. She born in Calcutta, India. Her famous work is Can the subaltern speak? In this work she apply the deconstruction and the theory of Marxism and also capitalism.
She talk about subaltern people,who can not raise their voice against the power.
Subaltern :
A subaltern is someone with a low ranking in a social, political, or other hierarchy. It can also mean someone who has been marginalized or oppressed.
Ex : we can see the Eklavya in Mahabharata and Eklavya in The Purpose.Both are different. In Mahabharata Eklabya had not spoke anything against the power and gave his thumb to Guru Drona. Apart from that in purpose he gave his thumb but he can speak against the power.
When we see the work of showalter ,her works are upon the women, she also find the work on women in history and found the situation of female. Showalter sketch some characterized women's writing like, awaking, suffering, her unhappiness and metrophobia.
She alsi trace the history women's literature,and also divided into three phases :
1) The feminine phase
2) The feminist phase
3) The female phase
Ex: Frankenstein. Showalter illustrated how Victorian doctors reduced the concepts of insanity and hysteria to a specifically female complaint, yet the sensibility of the early 19th century Steel could attribute hysteria symptoms to men.
Gayatri Spivak
Gayatri spivak is an Indian scholar. She is feminist. She born in Calcutta, India. Her famous work is Can the subaltern speak? In this work she apply the deconstruction and the theory of Marxism and also capitalism.
She talk about subaltern people,who can not raise their voice against the power.
Subaltern :
A subaltern is someone with a low ranking in a social, political, or other hierarchy. It can also mean someone who has been marginalized or oppressed.
Ex : we can see the Eklavya in Mahabharata and Eklavya in The Purpose.Both are different. In Mahabharata Eklabya had not spoke anything against the power and gave his thumb to Guru Drona. Apart from that in purpose he gave his thumb but he can speak against the power.
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