On British Feminism Literary Theory

Feminism literary criticism is a kind of literary criticism theory that is woman-centered,open and deconstrutive,which sprang up in sixties of 20th century.It is the fruit of feminist movement permeating through literary and cultural area in the west.Through tracing to the source of western feminism literary criticism and sorting out its basic conceptions,the thesis further discusses how British new feminism literary criticism clears gender policy of man-centered system and builds women's theory in the course of establishing women aesthetics and express difference,it also makes an comparative study with America and China to expound the emerging and developing of British new feminism literary criticism .Three waves of feminisms offer a good opportunity for the development of feminism literary criticism,especially in Britain.According to the social conditions,British literary criticism combined the advantages of other feminism thoery to develop its gender poetics.During the first-wave feminism literary criticism,Virginia Woolf explored an androgynist poetics to seek for the relationship between male and female. Whereas first-wave feminism focused largely on material inequalities, second-wave feminism found the deep inequalities as inextricably linked issues that had to be addressed in tandem. The movement encouraged women to understand aspects of their own personal lives as deeply politicized, and reflective of a sexist structure of power. British fictionist Dons Lessing opposed the masculine and feminine sides of a double-faced subject and showed her special view that male and female should rely on each other to create an ideal society.Comparing with the postfeminism in America and China,British new feminism has something for everyone that can embrace any strategy that will help to achieve the goal of material equality for women. It's a movement that can be supported by any woman or man who wants equality. New Feminism aims to separate the personal from the political to accept homesexuality and power.It shows that British new feminism is coming a gender poetics era that is not oppositive and neuter,but includible.Its aims will make sex and gender of people unimportant and insignificant and let the whole world be in harmonious state.Anyhow,British feminist theory arecharacterized by the comprehensiveness.Assimilating the theory and research achievements of a wide range of subjects ,such as radical feminism,Marxist feminism and socialist feminism etc., British feminism litrary criticism examines the literary and cultural phenomenon from various angles. It brings energy and innovational ideas into gender poetics which will become one of the aspects that people can not neglect and will contribute to develop a harmony relationship between male and female in the whole world.British new feminism will also give some advice on the development of Chinese feminism literary criticism.