feminist literature
collocation in Englishmeanings of feminist and literature
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literature
noun [U]
uk
/ˈlɪt.rə.tʃər/us
/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.tʃɚ/
written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
(Definition of feminist and literature from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of feminist literature
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In feminist literature, this subject is discussed by a number of theorists from a variety of viewpoints.
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It is now clear that the early feminist literature had overemphasised the intergenerational aspects of care at the cost of ignoring care between spouses.
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The criterion of heterogeneity is found in two quite different sorts of discussion in the feminist literature on the sciences, which emphasize different aspects of the criterion.
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Furthermore, she argues that much of feminist literature still functions under a compulsory heterosexual paradigm.
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.
The novel has been described as belonging to the genres of revisionist history and feminist literature, and employs themes of gender, religion, and power.
The novel has also been seen as an example of feminist literature.
In feminist literature, matriarchy and patriarchy are not conceived as simple mirrors of each other.
Despite this, she did not intend to write feminist literature.
Her retorts brought to mind the quippy one-upmanship of feminist literature.
Her works tend to minimise issues of gender, and are not easily classified as feminist literature.
The book might also be described as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself.
As a reaction, a current topic in the feminist literature on economic development is the gendering of microfinance, as women have increasingly become the target borrowers for rural microcredit lending.
As a reaction to the phenomenon that some forms of feminism are increasingly interwoven with capitalism, many suggestions on how to name these movements have emerged in the feminist literature.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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