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Ideally, feminism would like to achieve a society in which women and men are encouraged to fulfill their full ____as human beings regardless of the extent to which their abilities and inclinations differ from traditional (patriarchal) definitions of femininity and masculinity.

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Patriarchal ____(the patriarchal system of beliefs and assumptions) is difficult for most of us to recognize clearly and consistently because our everyday experience is so saturated with it.

We can start to use feminist theory to understand literature by asking the following questions about whatever literary work we want to interpret: Do the characters conform to patriarchal gender ____? To choose the simplest example, is the role of the strong, rational protector given to a male character while the role of the submissive, emotional nurturer is given to a female character?

When a literary text portrays characters who conform to patriarchal gender roles or depicts female characters as patriarchal stereotypes, we say that the text illustrates patriarchal ____.

A story or a play might positively portray characters who conform to traditional gender roles and negatively portray characters who violate those roles. Such a literary work would be considered a ____text, which, from a feminist perspective, means that it promotes damaging beliefs about women and men.