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APPROACHES IN
WRITING A
REVIEW
Group 1
FORMALISM
WHAT IS FORMALISM? 3
INCLUDE:
FORMALIST CRITICISM:
A formalist critic analyzes:
FEMINISM
WHAT IS FEMINISM?
-feminist theory is a major branch within sociology that shifts its
assumptions, analytic lens,
and topical focus away from the male viewpoint and experience
toward that of women
-promotes the pursuit of equality and justice
-supports the idea that men and women have different strengths,
perspectives, and roles, while advocating for the equal worth and
dignity of both sexes
FEMINIST THEORY
FOCUSES ON:
● discrimination and exclusion on the
basis of sex and gender
● objectification
● structural and economic inequality
● power and oppression
● gender roles and stereotypes
GENDER
DIFFERENCES
-feminist theory provides framework for
understanding women’s location in and
experience of social situations differ from men.
● What role does class play in the work; what is the author's analysis of class relations?
● How do characters overcome oppression?
● In what ways does the work serve as propaganda for the status quo; or does it try to undermine
it?
● What does the work say about oppression; or are social conflicts ignored or blamed
elsewhere?
● Does the work propose some form of utopian vision as a solution to the problems encountered
in the work
QUIZ TIME!
Test I. Identification
2. It supports the idea that men and women have different strengths,
perspectives, and roles, while advocating for the equal worth and dignity of both
sexes.
3. Believe that the different roles assigned to women and men within institutions.
4. Women’s location in and experience of social situations are not only different
but also unequal to men.
5. Argued that not only are women different from or unequal to men, but that
they are actively oppressed, subordinated, and even abused by men.
ANSWER
TEST I
1.FORMALISM
2.FEMINISM
3.GENDER DIFFERENCES
4. GENDER INEQUALITY
5.GENDER OPPRESSION
TEST II
● Words (meaning of the words)
● Shape/structure of the text
● Harmony of the words
● The rhythm of the sentences
● Rhyming of the words
● Meaning of the text as a whole