A Feminist Critic at Work 杨金才.ppt

Quotations for Examination
The word is understood only as an extension of the body which is there in the process of speaking…To the extent that it does not know repression, feminity is the downfall of interpretation.
-Michele Montrelay, “Inquiry into Feminity”
As women our relationship to the past has been problematical. We have been every culture’s core obsession (and repression).
-Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born
A Feminist Critic at Work
Read the following:
When the young woman--the mother of this child--stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress. In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. (57)
The gesture of revelation
Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her bea