Literary Criticism

Nathalie Léger entwines film description, biographical fragments and a mother-daughter exchange to ask how to approach a woman without appropriating her story.

Kate Millett's groundbreaking doctoral thesis turned manifesto, Sexual Politics, established patriarchy as a political institution and is considered one of the foundational texts of second-wave feminism and feminist literary criticism.

Sherry Simon's foundational work in feminist translation studies explores how gender shapes the practice of translation, arguing that translation is not a neutral act of transmission but a politically charged intervention in cultural meaning.

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar examine how nineteenth-century literary conventions shaped women’s authorship. This FemRes guide reads their ‘anxiety of authorship’ alongside a postcolonial critique of Jane Eyre’s Bertha Mason.