LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – NOV 2006
AP 23
EL 1805 - FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE
Date & Time : 31-10-2006/1.00-4.00 Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
SECTION - A
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 200 words each. (5x8=40 marks)
1. Consider Femininity as Marginality as perceived by Toril Moi.
2. What distinguishes the male linguistic fantasies from the female linguistic fantasies?
Explain.
3. To what extent is the Marxist feminist claim for equal wages practical and desirable?
4. How does Margaret Atwood rewrite female heroism in her poem Five Poems for
Grandmothers?.
5. Show how intuitive/feminine truth triumphs over factual/masculine truth in To the Lighthouse?
6. How does Nellie McClung question the silence, apathy and indifference of
Women
towards suffragists and their struggle in her work What Do Women Think of War?
7. What are your responses to ageing in The Woman Destroyed?
8. Are women trapped within conventional symbolism? Answer with reference to Man,
Feminine Gender.
SECTION B
Answer the following in about 500 words each. (3x20=60 marks)
9) “Yet not only has this achievement of women been edited out of literary history but a false
version has been substituted in its place”. How does Dale Spender justify
this statement in
her essay?
or
What is black feminism? Examine Michelle Wallace’s comments on the myth of the
black super woman.
10) Identify the several issues raised in the poem Ego Tripping and discuss how Nikki
Giovanni relates them to the woman’s contribution to the world.
or
What is the fall out of marriage according to Adrienne Rich? To what extent are women
responsible for themselves?
11) Consider the play ’Night Mother as the tragedy of a ‘ every woman’.
or
Discuss the salient features of liberal feminism.
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