In the early 1960's the feminist literary criticism became a theoretical issue with the appearance of the new women's movement. Actually, feminist criticism started as part of the international women's liberation movement. In the 1950s women had gone back to the house, abandoning their work to men who came back from the war to claim their positions, and a feminine was created in the media making the housewife and mother; the ideal models for all women. Promoting this ideal of women "reality" reduced the identity of women to sexual and social passivity. According to Critical Approaches: Feminist Criticism has become a powerful force of literary studies in the late 1970s. Since the early 1980s, feminist literary criticism has developed and spread in number of ways and is now criticized by a global perspective. "Feminist critique," through examining how women characters are shown, expose classics which demonstrates attitudes and traditions reinforcing masculine dominance. Another group practiced what came to be called "gynocriticism," studying writings by women and examining the female literary tradition to find out how women writers across the ages have perceived themselves and imagined reality. Later on it gradually became customary to refer to an Anglo-American tradition of feminist criticism. Feminist theory aims to understand the nature of inequality and focuses on gender politics, power relations and sexuality. While generally providing a critique of social relations, much of feminist theory also focuses on analyzing gender inequality and the promotion of women's rights, interests, and issues. Themes explored in feminism include art history and contemporary art, aesthetics, discrimination, stereotyping, objectification (especially sexual objectification), oppression, and patriarchy. The prior “woman’s movement” was primarily about woman as a universal entity, whereas it transformed itself into one primarily concerned with social differentiation, attentive to individuality and diverse.
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