feminist critique
Gender-focused scholarly analysis
Feminist critique is analysis that examines how gender, power, and patriarchy shape cultural texts, institutions, or practices.
In literary and film studies, it reveals how works represent women, challenge or reinforce gender norms, and reflect male-dominated perspectives: Her feminist critique of the novel exposed its treatment of female characters as objects.
The approach extends beyond arts criticism to analyzing politics, science, and social structures through a gendered lens.
- male gazeSexualized viewing of women
- standpoint theoryKnowledge rooted in social location
- gender inequalityUnequal treatment based on sex
- double standardUnequally applied moral code
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
male privilege · second wave · phallogocentrism · gender stereotypes · representation · final girl · body politics · gender theory · intersectionality · literary criticism · misogyny · cultural hegemony · queer theory · media studies · glass ceiling · Simone de Beauvoir · domestic labor · women's work