Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14Slide 15Slide 16Slide 17A Lens of One’s Own: Deborah ApplemanCarleton CollegeOf Yellow Wallpaper andBeautiful Little FoolsWe don’t know what woman’s vision is. What do women’s eyes see? How do they carve, invent, decipher the world? I don’t know. I know my own vision, the vision of one woman, but the world seen through the eyes of others? I only know what men’s eyes see.Viviane Forrester, New French FeminismsTeaching Literary Theoryto High School Studentsi Feminist Literary Theoryg 5 year projecti Urban & Suburban schoolsg All levels of classesi 5 teachersg Literary Theoriesi Reader Responsei Marxist Literary Theoryi DeconstructionWHY STUDY FEMINIST THEORY NOW?FEMINISTFe m i n I s t FEMINISTTHEORYHOW FEMINIST THEORY TRANSFORMS READING1. female characters  author’s stance2. author’s gender3. whole texts4. gendered patterns in the worldChanging the way we view female charactersShe & = e he = ele she = elaEPITHALAMIUM–II S = serpens h = homo e = evaSOME RESPONSES TO YELLOW WALLPAPERMaria and DavidMOUNT RUSHMOREA woman should have been President by now.The Miss America PageantThe Miss America PageantMadonna’sLingerieReading the text of our livesGender Tales“Feminist criticism is a political act whose aim is not simply to interpret the world but to change it, by changing the consciousness of those who read and their relation to what they read.” Fetterley, 1978,p.xxiiDue out in August!power point presentation by:alice&leonkate meyers, designerst. paul,