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Feminism Essay by Helene Cixous "Sorties" Feminist literary theory is a complex, dynamic area of study that draws from a wide range of critical theories, including psychoanalysis, Marxism, cultural materialism, anthropology, and structuralism. Although feminist literary theory is often described simply as the use of feminist principles and techniques to analyze the textual constructions of gendered meaning, feminists' definitions of gender and of feminism have undergone a number of significant alterations since the early 1970s. "Feminism has developed... a political language about gender that refuses the fixed and transhistorical definitions of masculinity and femininity in the dominant culture".1 From looking at the quotation above it is evident that we can identify some of the issues that are of major concern. By adopting already existing feminist insights and applying them in new ways, literary theorists transform them, thus creating an increasingly diversified field of study. Despite this diversity, most feminist literary theorists share several...

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