This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage ?

Correct answer: B. Elaine Showalter

  • A. Virginia Woolf
  • B. Elaine Showalter
  • C. Mary Wolstencraft
  • D. Ellen Mores

Explanation

Elaine Showalter describes three stages in women’s writing as the feminine, feminist, and female stages. This classification is a key idea in gynocriticism, her study of women as writers.

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