Feminist criticism

As is well-known in philosophy, certain feminist critics of science and technology, for example, Keller [27] and Harding [28], have argued that the scientihc community has maintained the status quo in its exclusion of women and women s concerns. To the extent that a person believes that the scientihc community has or has not excluded women, and to the extent that a person believes exclusion is unjust, that person may address the question of computer use favoring the status quo and excluding women. Although there are good reasons to think that the scientihc community has not been the disaster that certain feminists think it is [29], any researcher should be well aware of the possibility of exclusion not only for the effect on scientihc validity but also for the moral questions exclusion raises. 

Caplan, Paula J. Pathologizing Your Period Classification of Premenstrual Syndrome in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Ms. 18, no. 3 (Summer 2008) 63-64. Feminists criticize psychiatrists for... 

Susan Stanford Friedman, quoted by Shari Benstock, Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism , in Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship, ed. S. Benstock (Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana University Press, 1987), pp. 12-13. 

In the decades between Holtby s study and Woolf s rediscovery by second-wave feminist criticism, a number of commentators on Woolf had also put feminism at the centre of their analyses - though often in less than sympathetic ways. For Woolf s friend and fellow-novelist E. M. Forster, delivering a lecture on her life and work two months after her death, Woolf s feminism was a very peculiar side of her , producing one of the most brilliant of her books - the charming and persuasive A Room of One s Own , but also responsible for the worst of her books - the cantankerous Three Guineas - and for the less successful streaks in Orlando . There are spots of [feminism] all over her work, and it was constantly in her mind, Forster asserted, representing feminism as a matter of streaks and spots , blemishes on the work of art. In my judgement , he continued ... 

Psychoanalytic feminist criticism, of which Abel s and Defromont s is some of the most subtle and powerful, has extended the implications of Freud s accormt of the pre-Oedipal realm of the mother-daughter dyad and of maternal plenitude, finding in Woolf s work, and in To the Lighthouse in particular, some of its most compelling explorations and representations. There is a difference, however, between critics for whom there is something like a lost female homeland and those, like Mary Jacobus, for whom the pre-Oedipal relationship with the mother is a myth rather than a place to which women could or should seek to return. As Jacobus writes in First Things ... 

Mary Jacobus, The Difference of View , in Reading Woman Essays in Feminist Criticism (London Methuen, 1986), p. 40. 

The Feminist Criticism of Virginia Woolf , in A History of Feminist Literary Criticism, ed. Gill Plain and Susan Sellers (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 66-84... 

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