... on people's lives, these non-symmetrical male-female binaries both illustrate and reinforce the oppression of real-life women. Like feminism, which critically analyses and attempts to transform contemporary social systems, feminist literary theory entails a twofold movement encompassing both the critique of already existing sociolinguistic structures and the invention of alternative models of reading and writing. In its earliest phases, this double movement focused almost exclusively on female-gendered issues; however, the increased participation of feminists of colour, coupled with the rise in gender studies during the early 1980s, has expanded feminism's field of study considerably. From 1970 onwards progressed into second wave feminism which focused mainly on the equal rights of women and liberal feminism. L'ecriture feminine otherwise known as "writing the body" is the practise that is related to French feminism. Its discussion is concerned with subjectivity, sexuality and language. Many of its arguments have been predisposed to deconstruction and Post-Freudian ...

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