GENDER CRITICISM

Gender criticism is an extension of feminist literary criticism, focusing not just on women but on the construction of gender and sexuality, especially LGBTQ issues, which gives rise to queer theory.  Gender criticism labels the writer of the story.  An example of the dominating stereotypes would be that if the character is a man is dominating the leader role.  Whereas if the character is a female or woman then the character is submissive and a foloower, which is not always true.  There are cases where the woman is the dominant figure and the man can be the submissive, there is more of these roles in todays literature compared to the 1900s and earlier.  The stories we are reading in class seem to take the old way of thinking.