What is the difference between Anglo-American and French feminist theory?

Toril Moi's Sexual/Textual Politics (1985) distinguishes the more empirical, author-centred Anglo-American tradition (Showalter's gynocriticism) from the psychoanalytic/poststructuralist French tradition (Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous).

What is Adrienne Rich's 'compulsory heterosexuality'?

In her 1980 essay, Rich argues heterosexuality functions as a political institution enforced on women to maintain patriarchal power, rather than a simple, freely chosen natural orientation.

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Feminist Literary Theory — UGC NET MCQs

25 past-paper pattern questions going beyond Woolf/Beauvoir/Showalter — Kristeva’s semiotic/symbolic, Irigaray’s mimicry, Toril Moi’s Anglo-American/French comparison, and Adrienne Rich.

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Julia Kristeva's distinction (in Revolution in Poetic Language, 1974) between the 'semiotic' and the 'symbolic' proposes that the semiotic is:

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