What is Feminism & Feminist Criticism?| Feminist Theory Explained

Important Note: Dear viewers, A Room of One's Own is written by Virginia Woolf and not by Showalter. It is a correction in the video at 7:15. Please take note of it.
What is Feminism & Feminist Criticism?| Feminist Theory Explained
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This video answers to:
1. What feminism and feminist criticism?
2. What is feminist theory in literature?
3. Who are the major critics of feminist theory?
4. What are the major works of feminist criticism?
5. When did feminism begin?
6. What are the four waves of feminism?
7. How does Showalter explain the three phases of feminism?
8. Which are Toril Moi’s three concepts related to feminism?
9. How to explain feminist theory?
10. All about feminism and feminist criticism.

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[manabhanjanbarik]

Sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏 i am from Odisha ... please sir suggest me some crucial books so that i can easily crack NET or SET.... your narrating process is admirable and

[zeenatfatima]

Thank you sir for your kindness in making such video. May God bless you with his love. Keep going sir.
Your way of explaining in English is superb. ☺️ 👍🏻

[tomlock]

I was speaking to someone who labels themselves as a feminist. We were having quite a relaxed conversation about it. I asked what rights men have today that women don't have. I never got an answer. I heard the usual rantings we hear from "Feminists" about a pay-gap, but nothing else. I'm sure there are other issues, but the very fact that she couldn't think of any and calls herself a feminist screams volumes.

Let’s just clear up this imaginary pay-gap. There is not one single employer who pays a man more than a woman doing the same job. That has been illegal since 1963. It is true that men on the whole get paid more than women on the whole. The commonly regurgitated statistic for this is that women are paid 21% less than men. This may well be true, but it doesn’t take into account the disparity of hours worked by men and by women. On average women work 7.8 hours per day where men, work on average 8.2 hours per day. Therefore, the hours worked by men and by women accounts for 5% of the difference. A study conducted by The Guardian Newspaper in 2016 clearly shows that more women graduate from university than men, but fewer of these women apply for graduate jobs than the men. Also, female graduates who do apply for graduate jobs are far more likely to secure employment than men.

So let’s just recap. more women are graduating than men, but more of those men apply for graduate jobs meaning that a portion of those graduate women are applying for lower paid jobs and are working fewer hours once employed. When all the relevant statistics are taken into account, we can see the real reason for the pay-gap and it has nothing to do with gender inequality. Rather gender equality of choice.

To narrow the pay-gap further, we would have to take away a portion of women’s freedom of choice and demand they work longer hours in the jobs they are choosing not apply for.

Feminists complaining about the “Gender pay-gap” want to take away women’s freedom of choice. Modern feminism centres on equality of outcome and ignores the equality of opportunity.

Now let’s look at some of the social issues affecting men.

94% of work place deaths are of men. (This indicates that the jobs men work are more dangerous, on average, than those worked by women)
99.9% of deaths due to war are of men.
75% of suicides are men.
76% of murders are of men.
45% of domestic abuse victims are men (which we rarely to never hear about)
Men serve 63% more prison time than women for the same crimes.
71% of Homeless people are men.

There is also:
Paternal inequality.
Lower life expectancy for men.
Child custody inequality.
Child Support inequality.
False Rape Allegations going unpunished.
Criminal Court Bias.
Social misandry in education and the media.
Boys falling drastically behind in education (mainstream education is tailored for females).
Alcoholism affects twice as many men as women.
Infant Genital Mutilation affects 23% of men and 5% of women worldwide, yet FGM gains much more exposure.
Men have little to no say in regards to reproductive and family planning issues.
There is a huge lack of resources and compassion to male victims of domestic violence.
Prostate cancer has higher mortality rates than breast cancer with a vast disparity of exposure.


It's worth taking note of these to gain a balanced view, and not form opinions from what the majority of the media tells you to think.

Feminism isn’t about gender equality. That movement already exists. It’s called ‘Egalitarianism’.

Not every profession has been male dominated.

1. Child care services
 94% female

2. Home health care services
89% female

3. Veterinary services
80.7% female

4. Social services
84.8% female

5. Educational services
75.4% female in elementary and secondary schools

6. Libraries and archivists
76.5% female

7. Accountants
59% female

8. Legal services
54% female

9. Employment services
53% female

10. Leisure and hospitality
51% female


There are many professions dominated by men for which the inequality goes unnoticed by feminists.

Building and construction

Mechanics

Sports

Bathroom attendants

Military personnel

Logging workers

Fishers

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers

Roofers

Refuse collectors

Iron and Steel workers

Coal miners

Truck drivers

Farmers

Landscape workers

Power line installers & repairers

Maintenance workers

Police officers

Fire Fighters

Sewage workers


Let me end this with a question. What rights do men have that women don’t?

[vaishaliyeske]

Very well explained sir, simple language and through the point. Thank you

[upasanapradhan]

Your teaching is so good sir...Keep going ...
we want more such videos of yours

[pratimabhosale]

Sir explanation is very nice sir one request about Hoki k. Bhabha of a man and mimicry of ambivalence discourse pls post this essay

[rahulbairagya]

Thank you sir for giving a warming explanation about feminist criticism . I've many problems in this area . But now it is crystal clear .

[williamalmeida]

Very well explained. Thank you. God bless you with more knowledge.

[chittaranjangond]

Very good teaching... Thank you so much sir.

[jaycdp]

Nothing more, First you must understand the body conscious European and soul conscious indians( athmabhimani)
So when the girls have menophace they may be in a math class they shows intellectually suffering ( that does not mean man is intellectually superior) it is from a mind set of body conscious muscular man that was portrayed by these women in the west even today
So let me say a girl is studying chess this foolish men will say she was very good but we cannot depend on her for a competition. ( the teacher is right but he is making a decision in a competitive materialistic body conscious world
Even today it is happening despite the fact we have iron supplements and 90% of the problems are corrected still these girls worship muscle and those men look at a girls flesh.
This was totally against our culture now they poured it into our throat . Only shiva will not drink that poison rest of the world will

[jollyjolly]

Thank you so much sir🖤👌👌👌May God bless you Sir.Explanation is very clear

[joydeepakm]

Sir, "A room of one's own" was written by Virginia Woolf, and not by Elaine showalter, 7:41

[nutunkumari]

Sir make also videos on Queer theory and structuralism 🙏

[rohankhan]

Pls detail explain about feminist criticism in the role of the theory and, the nature of language..

[muhammadhaseebchishti]

Sir you should also add subtitles in ur videos.Your explanation is very easy thanks for your videos.

[naina]

Sir what is feminism... Ye to bataiye... Thumbnail mein jo likha hai wo bataiye sir

[lorelyncamus]

This was the title which aligned me to report. Thanks! it helps me a lot to understand more

[ritikakaushal]

Thnku so much sir very Impressive lecture

[thenmozhi]

Room of one's own by Virginia woolf not by Elaine showalter. Don't give wrong information

[av]

So I have few question what the actual meaning of feminist

To whom we can say that the person is feminist writer what are the qualities and parameter of feminist writer?

What is feminism perspective ???