LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 1805 – FFEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE

 

 

Date : 30-04-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

SECTION – A

 

Answer any FIVE of the following in about 200 words each:                                        (5×8=40 marks)

 

1. Explain the role of computers in enhancing a feminist liberation.
2. Show how stereotyping traps men and women. Answer with reference to Man, Feminine Gender.
3. Comment on The Woman Destroyed as a comment on family relationships.
4. Show how Judith Wright reinterprets the myth of the fall from grace to make a point about female strength.

5. Show how the myth of black macho cheats black women of their human rights.
6. What feminist themes does the short story All for a Husband explore?
7. Discuss Ego Tripping as a feminist poem.
8. Comment on the theme of marriage in To The Lighthouse

SECTION B SECTION B

Answer any three of the following in about 500 words each:                                        (3×20=60 marks)

 

9. Discuss the salient features of Marxist feminism
10. What, according to Adrienne Rich, are the challenges married women must overcome to be free.
11. Discuss the theme of female bonding in Sister of My Heart.
12. Write an essay on the feminist concerns in “Night Mother.

 

 

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