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Lisa Tittle has defined feminist theory as asking "new questions of old texts." She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: (1) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, (2) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, (3) to rediscover old texts, (4) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, (5) to resist sexism in literature, and (6) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.


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  • Judith Butler . ''Gender Trouble''. ISBN 0-415-92499-5.

  • Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar . ''The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination''. ISBN 0-300-08458-7.

  • Toril Moi . ''Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory''. ISBN 0-415-02974-0; ISBN 0-415-28012-5 (second edition).

  • Rita Felski, "Literature After Feminism" ISBN 0-226-24115-7

  • Annette Kolodny . "Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism."