Mid-Term Flashcards
(102 cards)
1
Q
Patriarchy
A
System of power (Men over Women) Privilege men.
Dictionary definition: A system or government in which the father or edest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line.
2
Q
Matriarchy
A
A system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.
3
Q
Patrilineal
A
Relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line.
4
Q
Matrilineal
A
Of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.
5
Q
Self-censorship
A
The exercising of control over what one says and does, especially to avoid criticism.
6
Q
Censorship
A
Limited access to education
Dictionary definition: The suppression or prohibition of any part of books, films, news, etc. That are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
7
Q
Bildungsroman/ the coming of age
A
A novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education (Maturing)
8
Q
Silencing
A
Takes different forms
Women can’t talk; can’t write about certain topic; taking the name of a man as authors
9
Q
Female Doubling
A
Sisters, twins, friends, ghost; it may be a function; women are confined are also confined in their choice of actions. You have the good one and the bad one.
10
Q
Foreshadowing
A
Be a warning or an indication of a future event
11
Q
Public Sphere
A
It is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.
12
Q
Private Sphere
A
It is a certain sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by interventions from governmental or other institutions. For instance, family and home.
13
Q
Domestic sphere (separate sphere)
A
Keeps the women out of the public sphere; domestic sphere as a prison
14
Q
Semi-autobiographical
A
Dealing partly with the writer’s own life but also containing fictional elements
15
Q
Autobiographical
A
Dealing with the writer’s own life.
16
Q
Rest cure, Rest therapy
A
Confined in a room and not allowed to write; bed rest, isolation and forced feeding.
Against creative people; they put them to bed to prepare them to be obidient, prepared them to a be mother.
17
Q
The Emily’s
A
Emily Bronte (British): didn’t get married
Emily Dickinson (Amerian): Locked herself in her room
Emily Carr (Canadian): Painter, wanted to be original, outcast, not feminine, rather the company of animals
Each of them escaped marriage
The 3 Emily’s written by Dorothy Livesay: She wishes to join the emily’s’ but couldn’t due to her children/ husband
18
Q
Scold’s bridle
A
Punishment for woman who scold their husband (it was a way to humiliate them) Bridle: for horses
19
Q
Father’s house
A
Metaphor for living within the confines of the father complex.
The father rules: women have no say/opinion
20
Q
Writing the body
A
Denise Levertov (Hypocrite Woman)
Men closer to god: more brain
Women closer to the body: give birth.
Adam and Eve: Curse (fertility) the pain during labor
21
Q
Whore
A
Aphra Behn; people talked about her like she was a whore, but she was a good writer.
22
Q
Intertextuality
A
When one book talks back to another book (It can be very brief)
Allusion, parallel characters, places, themes (like the madwoman in the attic)
23
Q
Elements of poetry
A
Stanzas: a series of lines grouped together and separated by an empty line form other stanzas.
Lines, speaker, title
24
Q
Writing back through the mothers
A
The blank page & The Three Emily’s. Ex: what relationship do the earlier authors have to motherhood? They write according to what their own experience of the subject was.
25
Feminist recovery (writing back through the mothers)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
| Bertha and Antoinette are liberated by the author cause she gave them a voice
26
Talking back
Jean Rhys talk back to Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre talk back to patriarchy
Women were not allowed to talk back to their husbands (punishment)
27
The witch
Ex: Margaret Atwood (Spelling) Maybe the witch is the mother of the mother. Take it the negativeness of the witch and make it into something more positive. Learning through our mother about our history.
Witches: spells, Ancestress, burning witch, mouth covered by leather darkness, stoning, reappropriation.
28
Object of desire
The willing Mistress(Aphra Behn)
Love poems written by women were seen as whorish, slutish
Female object of desire; poems writen by men
Things they could not say
The patriarchy want monogamy because they want to control over offsprings
29
Enheduanna
First writer known by name in human history (thousand years before Sappho) first woman writer.
Many poems dedicated to the goddess Inanna
one the earliest astronomers - set up many observatories
Wrote her own history as a moon priestess
30
Sappho/Island of Lesbos
Sappho: archaic greek poet from the island of Lesbos. She is known for her lyric poetry. The term "lesbos" is known from the ancient poetry of Sappho.
- Most of her love poems were written to women
Her books were burned down by Christinians under the order of the Pope
Her poems were delivred orally, many were put to music
Sappho often wrote to the goddess Aphrodite
(Venus to Romans)
31
Reproductive and domestic labor
often associated with care giving and domestic roles including cleaning, cooking, child care, and the paid domestic labor force.
32
Pseudonym
A fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity.
33
Juvenilia
works, especially writings, produced in one's youth.
34
Othering
different or distinct from the one or ones already mentioned or implied.
35
The old maid, spinster
an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage. (Bertha - Jane Erye)
36
Subject of her own story
The Yellow Wallpaper
| The Willing Mistress
37
Gothic
Suspense, danger, castles, mansions, ghosts, secret rooms, or a style of architecture
The Yellow Wallpaper: seemingly haunter old house
Rooted in the victorian perido
38
Indian Princess, Squaw
Native Amerindian women
39
The madwoman in the attic
The Woman in the attic is a book: addresses the struggle that nineteenth-century women writers underwent in order to determine their identities as writers.
Bertha is the wild side the angry side.
40
Repressed female self
Often represented in fiction through the use of a double: a sister, a twin, a mirror reflection, a friend, a shadow, a woman behind the wallpaper, a madwoman in the attic.
41
Doubling/The female double
taboo emotions such as desire and anger are often projected onto the double (ex: what can Bertha be, that Jane cannot be?)
41
Narcissus
Narcissus was a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty.
43
Narcissus
Narcissus
A bulbous Eurasian plant of a genus that includes the daffodil, especially (in gardening) one with flowers that have white or pale outer petals and a shallow orange or yellow cup in the center.
44
Muted culture
Certain powerless groups of women not listened or respected by women or men
Women are interrupted more than men
44
Gender
Either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behaviour.
45
Female muse
female model in literature which inspires an artist
46
Writing against the grain
To write differently from the standard way most people do it.
47
Lament
A passionate expression of grief or sorrow. (Jane Eyre?)
48
Wildness
Living in a state of nature and not ordinarily tame or domesticated.
49
Emergence of Self
The process of becoming visible after being concealed.
Letting
An urge toward self-realization
50
Female archetypes - Cinderella (Passive heroine)
Type primitif ou idéal ; original qui sert de modèle: Cinderella didn't not took part in her happy ending.
51
The crone/hag
Crone: an ugly old woman
Hag: a witch
52
Female archetypes - Cinderella (Passive heroine)
Type primitif ou idéal ; original qui sert de modèle: Cinderella: the woman that is waiting to be rescued
53
Virgin
the blank page, announcing virginity, claiming paternity of future children
55
The madwoman
Gothic romance is more specific than a classic romance. Gradual discovery of Bertha Mason, Rochester's first wide, locked in a room on the third floor (madwoman in the house).
the madwoman in the attic could represent the confining and repressive aspects of Victorian wifehood (Jane Erye
56
Gender continuum vs Binary/Opposites
Continuum: A continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, but the extremes are quite distinct. (The gingerbread person)
Binary: relating to, composed of, or involving two things.
57
Byronic Hero
Byronic: possessing the characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy and melodramatic energy.
Rochester (Wide Sargasso Sea)
58
Colonial, postcolonial - colonized, colonizer: Wide Sargasso Sea
```
Mean the inability to exile to resolve lack of belonging; inability to resolve loss, inability to move ahead, a problem to resolve colonial power imbalance.
Postcolonial notion of difference (colonizer vs colonized; North vs South, Creole vs British )
Gender difference (lack of communication between men and women; economic and discursive power imbalance)
```
59
Discursive Dominance/ Gender discourse
(Boys will be boys, nymphomaniac, lady-like, old maid, spinster vs. bachelor)
What language is used to describe men, what language is used to describe women
60
Empowerment vs disempowerment
Empowerment: Authority or power given to someone to do something.
Disempowerment: Make (a person or group) less powerful or confident.
61
Connotation/ Denotation
Connotation: An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Denotation: The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
62
Radical Knowledge
Science knowledge.
63
Nymphomaniac
A female who has an excessive desire for sexual activity
64
Gerda Lerner (The Creation of Patriarchy)
"we realize that the story of the performances over thousands of years have been recorded only by men and told in their words".
Is is a study that she did
Her message: Stop worrying about partriarchy. That about yourself.
65
Suffragist
a person in the past who worked to get voting rights for people who did not have them.
66
Cross-dressing
se traverstir
67
Gender Trouble
is a book by the philosopher Judith Butley, in which the author argues that gender is a kind of improvised performance.
68
Construction of gender
Is a theory in feminism and sociology about the origin of gender difference between men and women.
69
Ambiguity; ambivalence
Ambiguity: The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
Ambivalence: The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
70
Male Pseudonym
woman taking the name of a man to be able to have success with her book, because people wouldn't buy women's books in that time.
71
Unreliable narrator
first-person-driven narratives that give the audience to make their own interpretation of a story.
The Yellow Wallpaper Is she sane
Her credibility is seriously compromised.
72
Psychological realism
style of writing that came to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It's a highly character-driven genre of fiction writing, as it focuses on the motivations and internal thoughts of characters to explain their actions.
73
Inversion
literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies the form. Ex: Came the dawn.
74
Denial of authorship (wrote only one book)
Emily Brontë - Wrote only one.
The society refused to credit women for their "work"
Ann Killigrew: many were saying that a man wrote it
75
The great chain of being
is a strict hierarchical stucture of all matter and life
76
The angel in the house
The girl who is the angel in the house is more vulnerable than the rebellious one.
- Jane Erye
77
Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
Brooklyn Museum -
The first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization. There are 39 elaborate place settings arranged along a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women.
78
Aphrodite/Venus
Ancient greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. Identified with planet Venus, which is the ancient roman goddess of love, beauty, desire, fertility, prosperity and victory.
79
The dancing dog
An expression used to represent women who were writing; as if they don't know what they are doing. Women who are writing are not normal because it is reserved to men.
80
Resistance
The refusal to accept or comply with something.
81
Complicity
The fact or condition of being involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong.
82
Historical and Cultural recovery
Indigenous peoples: “For First Nation people, loss of their cultural identity was not an abrupt event, but continued in one form or another through centuries of pain and suffering, and so they were never able to reach a full stage of recovery in this cycle of grieving.”
83
Aphra Behn
British - First to earn her living by the pen.
Playwrite, poet, novelist, and government spy
Wrote a novel base on her travels to Suriname
84
Dualism/Binary (a dualist world view)
God, spirit/body (animalistic, sexuality) ; reason/emotion, madness ; white/black, indigenous, mixed blood, metis ; male/female ; beauty/ugliness ; sexual reproduction/desire, lust ; light/dark science (doctors)/magic witchcraft, natural medicine, midwives ; instituionalized knowledge/gossip, old wives' tales ; holistic and traditional beliefs.
85
Confessional Style " Reader, I married him"
In literature, confessional writing is a first-person style that is often presented as an ongoing diary or letters, distinguished by revelations of a person's heart and darker motivations.
Sylvia Plath
86
Subject vs. Object status
The difference for women between being seen as an object or a natural human being.
87
Do you think I am an automaton?
Charlotte Bronte - a machine without feelings... an excerpt from Jane Eyre
88
Career Women
Women writers who wanted to make money with their writing. It was challenging for women to find success in a male-dominated literary marketplace. Women who chose the literary life often faced social censure, received substandard pay, and fell subject to a critical double standard.
89
Elements of novels
Plot: The main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Theme: one or more direct or indirect statements about the human condition as evidenced through the work as a whole
Images: the author’s attempt to create a mental picture (or reference point) in the mind of the reader. Remember, though the most immediate forms of imagery are visual, strong and effective imagery can be used to invoke an emotional, sensational (taste, touch, smell etc) or even physical response.
Form:
Title:
Language (diction): word choice that both conveys and emphasizes the meaning or theme of a poem through distinctions in sound, look, rhythm, syllable, letters, and definition
90
Anne Killigrew
Her poetic abilities were compared to the famous Greek poet of antiquity, Sappho. Her poems were too good she couldn't have written them.
91
The Cinderella complex
an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others.
Passive heroine: The complex is named after the fairy tale character Cinderella. It is based on the idea of femininity portrayed in that story, where a woman is beautiful, graceful, polite, supportive, hardworking, independent, and maligned by the females of her society, but she is not capable of changing her situations with her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male
92
Alterity
The state of being other or different; otherness.
93
Cultural amnesia
culture that represses memories - liberation from personal past traumas through a controlled forgetting might create the possibility for a new sense of belonging and identity.
94
Knowledge from the margins
Have a good knowledge about the subject of a book before you read the book to make sure you understand it completely. For example, if you don't have knowledge about fishing, and you read a book about fishing, the concept would not apply.
95
Relational, reciprocal identity
(De ce que j'ai compris) It would be how the society defines ones based on the gender, regions, language, social class...
96
Sexist Language
is language which excludes one sex or the other, or which suggests that one sex is superior to the other.
97
Gender construction
The social construction of gender is a theory in feminism, and sociology about the origin of gender difference between men and women. According to this view, society and culture create gender roles, and these roles are prescribed as ideal or appropriate behaviour for a person of that specific sex.
98
Agency
Agency is the ability for a person, or agent, to act for herself or himself. A person who is not allowed to act for her/himself is lacking in agency, or is said to have been denied agency.
For instance: (1) When men speak on behalf of women, they deny them agency. Instead, men should allow women to speak for themselves (The Yellow Wallpaper and Jane Erye
(2)Dismissing or lowering the value of a work created by a woman with a Denial of Agency attack, implying or directly stating that she is not truly its author.
99
Reappropriation
cultural process by which a group reclaims terms or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.
100
Inappropriate subjects
Female body
Orgasms
Menstruation
101
Trivialization of subject
Make something less important, significant or complexe than it really is.
102
Medusa
Was a monster, gorgon
| described as a winged female with snake hair and looking into her eyes would turn you into stone.
