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The American cartoonist Alison Bechdel incorporated her friend's "test" into a strip in Dykes to Watch Out For.. The Bechdel test (/ ˈ b ɛ k d əl / BEK-dəl), [1] also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction.
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 .
Dykes to Watch Out For (sometimes DTWOF) was a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel.The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) and Lisa Alther's Kinflicks (1976) were to an earlier one". [1]
Character Series/Franchise Author/Publisher Country Ref. 1986 Johnny Do Psi-Force: Marvel Comics USA [1] [2] 1996 Claudette St. Croix: Generation X: Marvel Comics USA [3] [4] [5] 2000 Hikaru Azuma With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child: Keiko Tobe Japan [6] 2001 Reed Richards: Fantastic Four: Marvel Comics USA [7] 2003 Black Manta: Aquaman ...
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.
Before the 1970s—in the first and second waves of feminism—feminist literary criticism was concerned with women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within the literature; in particular the depiction of fictional female characters. In addition, feminist literary criticism is concerned with the exclusion of women from the ...
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
[1] [3] [4] Most genres and subgenres have undergone a similar analysis, so literary studies have entered new territories such as the "female gothic" [5] or women's science fiction. According to Elyce Rae Helford, "Science fiction and fantasy serve as important vehicles for feminist thought, particularly as bridges between theory and practice."