Broadly defined, ____refers to any society in which men hold all or most of the power. In a patriarchy, women suffer varying degrees of oppression depending on, among other things, their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation, and the country or region in which they live.
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Feminism, therefore, seeks to understand the ways in which women are oppressed-socially, economically, politically, and psychologically-in order to reduce, if not eliminate their ____.
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.
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?