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Gynocriticism developed as a literary critique from the theories and techniques of post-structuralism and psychoanalysis.

Post-structuralism is by nature, the study of the uncertain ( Barry 2009 ).

According to Barry, post-structuralism questions and interrogates the scientific certainty that structuralism took for granted, identifying the fact that language is ambiguous and therefore the universe is indeterminate.

Psychoanalytic criticism focuses on the word of Freud, and the concept of the unconscious.

The textual content is both conscious and unconscious and the critique involves the uncovering or decoding of the two.

Additionally, Freudian psychoanalysis identifies repression and sublimation, two unconscious processes that involve the struggle with identity.

Gynocriticism, examines the female struggle for identity and the social construct of gender.

If gender is inherently constructed from an ideology, then that ideology is by nature, indeterminate and fluid, susceptible to the analysis of differences.

According to Elaine Showalter, gynocriticism is the study of not only the female as a gender status but also the ' internalized consciousness ' of the female.

The uncovering of the female subculture and exposition of a female model is the intention of gynocriticism.