Feminism 

 Interrogates Western society’s patriarchy

 Exposes implicit and explicit examples of misogyny 

Assumptions of Feminism
 Women have been systematically oppressed.
 Wherever patriarchy exists, women have been marginalized.
 Women are often defined in relation to men.
 All Western societies are rooted in patriarchal ideologies.
 Gender is a performance and learned through social and cultural mechanisms.
 Gender plays a role in all human experiences. 

Questions for Texts through a Feminist Lens

 How are relationships portrayed?
 How is gender portrayed?
 What happens when gender is transgressed?
 How are male and female roles defined?
 What constitutes masculinity and femininity?
 How are masculinity and femininity embodied?
 Does the text reveal operations of patriarchy?

Notes
 The entire world is in rebellion. 
 It deals with psychological time.
 Everyone in the villages tries to make sense of what it is.
 Pay attention to the little/smaller miracles.
 Father … is an element of the satire.
 It sounds like a post-colonial story.