LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2006
LO 23
EL 1805 - FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE
(Also equivalent to EL 1951)
Date & Time : 28-04-2006/1.00-4.00 P.M. Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
SECTION – A
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 200-300 words each
(5 x 8 = 40 marks)
1. Distinguish ‘feminist linguistic fantasy’ and ‘masculinist linguistic fantasy’.
2. Discuss the efforts of some of the women writers towards ‘female linguistic
empowerment’.
3. What aspects of women’s strength does the poem Five Poems for Grandmothers
celebrate?
4. What, according to McClung, is the connection between women and war?
Discuss.
5. What is the real cause of Jessie’s death? Discuss.
6. Comment on Michele Wallace’s arguments on the need for a black perspective in
the feminist movement.
7. Discuss the fall out of the woman’s desire for personal affirmation in “Man,
Feminine Gender (I anthropos)”
8. Do you think the feminine mystique could be an alternative to the thinking
woman? Elaborate with reference to “Snapshots of Daughters”.
SECTION – B
Answer the following in about 400-500 words each
(3 x 20 = 60 marks)
1. Do you think computers and cyber technology can further the feminist cause?
How is exploitation of women still possible on the Net?
2. Examine aspects of horror in “Harvest”.
(Or)
Elaborate on masculine knowledge and feminine perception in “To the
Lighthouse”.
3. Do you agree with Germaine Greer’s contention that “there have always been
good women writers, in every area and every era, and that they always
disappear”? Justify your answer with textual evidences.
(Or)
How does Giovanni in her poem Ego Tripping rewrite women’s contribution to
world history? Discuss.
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