Feminist scholars began taking cues from the new theories arising from these movements to analyzing film.

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Feminist Susan Faludi discussed the film in Backlash, arguing that major changes had been made to the original plot in order to make Alex wholly negative, while Dan's carelessness and the lack of compassion and responsibility raised no discussion, except for a small number of fundamentalist men's groups who said that Dan was eventually forced to own up to his irresponsibility in that " everyone pays the piper ".

Feminist criticism of art, film, and literature has often examined gender-oriented characterization and plot, including the common " damsel in distress " trope.

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* Feminist film theory

" Feminist academic and AIDS video producer Alexandra Juhasz puts forth the film as " an effective critique of the silly sensationalism used in much reportage of AIDS science fights melodrama and tabloid journalism -- with melodrama and tabloid journalism.

The film is discussed in Christina Lane's book Feminist Hollywood: From " Born in Flames " to " Point Break ".

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Campaigns against the film continued throughout production, the Feminist Majority Foundation condemning the film as “ misogynist ,” and the Canadians Concerned About Violence in Entertainment ( C-CAVE ) convincing restaurant owners to deny Harron permission to film in their establishments.

Feminist film theory of the last twenty years is heavily influenced by the general transformation in the field of aesthetics, including the new options of articulating the gaze, offered by psychoanalytical French feminism.

Feminist film critic Molly Haskell has even gone to such an extreme as to claim that, " The mammary fixation is the most infantile, and the most American, of the sex fetishes ".

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Feminist critic Maggie Anwell decries the film for its over-emphasis on bloody werewolf special effects, but another, Charlotte Crofts, argues that the film is a sensitive adaptation of Carter's reworking of Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.

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* Feminist film theory

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Feminist theory, which emerged from these feminist movements, aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women's social roles and lived experience ; it has developed theories in a variety of disciplines in order to respond to issues such as the social construction of sex and gender.

Feminist theory typically characterizes patriarchy as a social construction, which can be overcome by revealing and critically analyzing its manifestations.

Feminist theory has explored the social construction of masculinity and its implications for the goal of gender equality.

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Feminist theory talks about " doing gender " and / or " performing gender ".

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or by the politics of feminism more broadly.

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Feminist theory of psychoanalysis, articulated mainly by Julia Kristeva ( the " semiotic " and " abjection ") and Bracha Ettinger ( the feminine-prematernal-maternal matrixial Eros of borderlinking and com-passion, " matrixial trans-subjectivity " and the " primal mother-phantasies "), and informed both by Freud, Lacan and the Object relations theory, is very influential in gender studies.

Feminist theory, in respect to Antony and Cleopatra, often looks at Shakespeare ’ s use of language when describing Rome and Egypt.

Feminist theory can also be seen at play in Stowe's book, with the novel as a critique of the patriarchal nature of slavery.

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Category: Feminist theory

Feminist economists pushed for and produced gender aware theory and analysis, broadened the focus on economics and sought pluralism of methodology and research methods.

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* Feminist theory: The advocacy of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism.

Dianic Witchcraft and Dianic Feminist Witchcraft, is a tradition, or denomination, of the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

According to Cynthia A. Freeland in " Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films ," feminist studies of horror films have focused on psychodynamics where the chief interest is " on viewers ' motives and interests in watching horror films ".

Feminist science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction which tends to deal with women's roles in society.

Feminist science fiction is sometimes taught at the university level to explore the role of social constructs in understanding gender.

Feminist science fiction is evidenced in the globally popular mediums of comic books, manga, and graphic novels.

Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective.

Fenton judges the Parsons based on their attractiveness and is agitated when they do not “ fulfil stereotypical female roles ,” as author Anne Cranny-Francis describes it ( Feminist Science Fiction, 30 ).

Feminist theorist Marilyn Frye claims that misogyny is phallogocentric and homoerotic at its root.

An exception is Dianic Wicca ( also known as Feminist Witchcraft and / or Feminist Spirituality ), a branch of Wicca practiced almost exclusively by women, most of whom are heterosexual, preferring to practice their spirituality with other women in pursuit of Women's Mysteries.

In the book, Limbaugh also stated that the word refers to unspecified women whose goal is to allow as many abortions as possible, saying at one point that there were fewer than 25 " true feminazis " in the U. S. Limbaugh has used the term to refer to members of the National Center for Women and Policing, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Organization for Women, and other organizations at the March for Women's Lives, a large pro-choice demonstration.

* The Hoda Cha ' arawi Association ( formerly The Egyptian Feminist Union ) is established in Egypt.

She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Feminist literary critics have analyzed the character's enduring appeal, arguing variously that Nancy Drew is a mythic hero, an expression of wish fulfillment, or an embodiment of contradictory ideas about femininity.

Although it was not the first or longest of her works, without question Gilman's most famous piece is her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which became a best-seller of the Feminist Press.

Feminist thinking, on the other hand, may object to such models as patriarchal and posit against them emotionally-attuned, responsive, and consensual empathetic guidance, which is sometimes associated with matriarchies.

Feminist economics is the critical study of economics including its methodology, epistemology, history and empirical research, attempting to overcome pervasive androcentric ( male and patriarchal ) biases.

Feminist economists call attention to the social constructions of traditional economics, questioning the extent to which it is positive and objective, and showing how its models and methods are biased towards masculine preferences.

Feminist economists also point out that agency is not available to everyone, such as children, the sick, and the frail elderly.

Feminist economists, argue on the contrary that a mathematical conception of economics limited to scarce resources is a holdover from the early years of science and Cartesian philosophy, and limits economic analysis.

Feminist critiques of economics include that " economics, like any science, is socially constructed.