Essays on Gender Criticism

As a relatively new form of accepted literary criticism, gender studies can’t help but to incorporate aspects of multiple other forms of criticism. Gender criticism depends on the distinction, or the lack thereof, between constructed dichotomies in society; It focuses on both perceived and inherent...

Did the role of gender have any influence on the actions in the well known novel the Lord of the Flies? Would things have turned out differently if it was all girls stranded on the island, instead of all boys? Gender criticism explores the differences...

The prospect of considering the connections between Gender Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, and Feminist Criticism is a tough puzzle to unpack because, among other things, they illustrate not only the progression of literary criticism, but also the progression of gender studies and queer studies. So while...