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What are two goals of feminist literary criticism?

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The ultimate goal of feminist literary criticism is to uncover and expose patriarchal and underlying tensions within novels and to interrogate the ways in which our base of literary assumptions about such novels are contingent upon female subordination.

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Search Results Featured snippet from the web Specific goals of feminist criticism include both the development and discovery female tradition of writing, and rediscovering of old texts, while also interpreting symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view and resisting sexism inherent in the majority of mainstream.
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