LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

LO 23

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                           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?
5. What is the real cause of Jessie’s death?
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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                        LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

AP 23

FIRST SEMESTER – NOV 2006

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.   (5×8=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.    (3×20=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.

• 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?

• Consider the play ’Night Mother as the tragedy of a ‘ every woman’.

or

Discuss the salient features of liberal feminism.

 

 

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