This passage highlights the traditional gender roles that place women in the domestic roles, specifically in the kitchen. Even though it is a women's role the man still gets the credit for the recipe
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Gender criticism, following Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's articulation, is an extension of feminist literary criticism. It focuses not just on women but on the construction of gender and sexuality, especially LGBTQ issues, which gives rise to queer theory. Gender criticism suggests that power is not just top down or patriarchal, for example, a man dominating a woman. It suggests that power is multifaceted and never just in one direction. For example, in the nineteenth century while many women argued for suffrage (or the right to vote), at the same time those very women who were white could be dominating or holding power over African Americans in the American slave system.
This passage outlines gender criticism, which builds on feminist literary theory by focusing on the construction of gender and sexuality, including LGBTQ issues. The example with white women's involvement in both the suffrage movement and the oppression of African Americans shows how gender and power can intersect in complex ways.
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Like feminism, gender criticism examines how gender is caught between the notion of essentialism, the belief that women are naturally and fundamentally different than men based on their biological sex and that nonheterosexual identities are deviant from the biological heteronormative distinction between male and female, and constructionism, the belief that gender is not essentialist or based on biological nature but is constructed through culture.
It used to be believed that women were inferior to men biologically
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The only women that used to even remotely have some power were wealthy white women
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A woman's identity is determined by Her husband even if she has her own hobbies
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