Gynocriticism
A conception introduced by Elaine Showalter in Towards a
Feminist Poetics gynocriticism refers to a kind of review with woman as pen/
patron of textual meaning, as against woman as anthology (feminist notice).
Gynocriticism Being concerned with the particularity of women’s jottings (gynotexts) and
women’s gests, it focuses on womanish subjectivity, womanish language and
womanish erudite career, and attempts to construct a womanish frame for the
analysis of literature.
Gynocritics are primarily engaged in relating distinctly womanlike subject matter (domesticity, gravidity) in the literature written by women, uncovering the history of womanish erudite tradition, depicting that there's a womanlike mode of experience and subjectivity in thinking and perceiving the tone and the world, and specifying traits of “ woman’s language”, a distinctively womanlike style of speech and jotting. Some of the gynocritical textbooks include Patricia Gynocriticism Meyer Spacks‘The Womanish Imagination, Ellen Moers‘Literary Women, Elaine Showalter’s A Literature of their Own and Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic, which elucidates Gynocriticism the anxiety of authorship that arises from the notion that erudite creativity is an exclusive manly appanage, and it's this anxiety that creates a counter figure for the idealised woman, the frenetic woman (modelled on Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre). Gynocriticism was criticised for essentialism.