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  2. Bechdel test - Wikipedia

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    Female and male characters in film, according to four studies. In film, a study of gender portrayals in 855 of the most financially successful U.S. films from 1950 to 2006 showed that there were, on average, two male characters for each female character, a ratio that remained stable over time.

  3. Chick lit - Wikipedia

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    In 1992, Los Angeles Times critic Carolyn See was probably the first to spot that a new style of popular women's fiction was emerging. [11] Though she didn't use the term chick lit, in a review of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, the critic noted that McMillan's book was not "lofty" or "luminous" but was likely to be highly commercially successful.

  4. Category:Female characters in literature - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 461 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Gynocriticism - Wikipedia

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    While previous figures like Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir had already begun to review and evaluate the female image in literature, [2] and second-wave feminism had explored phallocentrism and sexism through a female reading of male authors, gynocriticism was designed as a "second phase" in feminist criticism – turning to a focus on, and interrogation of female authorship, images, the ...

  6. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards , matching games , practice electronic assessments , and live quizzes.

  7. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    She is the female counterpart without whom the male aspect, which represents consciousness or discrimination, remains impotent and void. As the female manifestation of the supreme lord, she is also called Prakriti , the basic nature of intelligence by which the Universe exists and functions.

  8. List of American feminist literature - Wikipedia

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    Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms, Judith Sargent Murray (1784) [2] "On the Equality of the Sexes", Judith Sargent Murray, from The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum Concerning the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners, Amusements of the Age, Vol. II ...

  9. List of fictional lesbian characters - Wikipedia

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    America Chavez is an openly gay character, who has had relationships with a male personification of the Ultimate Nullifier and a female emergency medical technician named Lisa Halloran. [2] [3] [4] Tomoyo Daidouji: Cardcaptor Sakura & Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card: 1996–present Tomoyo is in love with the protagonist of the show, Sakura.