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Judith Fetterley's "The Resisting Reader" ("The…

- - - - "even the poorest male gains something from a system in which all women are at some level his subjects. Rather than attack the men who represent and manifest that system, he identifies with them and acquires his sense of power through superiority to woman" (xvi-xvii)
    - - "Not only does powerlessness characterize woman's experience of reading, it also describes the content of what is read" (xiii)
- - - - "Under such a system there need be very few power struggles, because women are programmed to deny the validity of their own perceptions and responses and to accept male illusions as truth" (33)
- - - - "Images-of-women criticism judges a work... according to whether it provides 'positive images' of women" (Parker 152)
    - - "Contemporary feminism, while it continues to value the study of what patriarchy has done to women (and to men), has also gone beyond that early focus to concentrate on what women do and, in the case of literature and literary criticism, on what women write" (Parker 158)
      - "Feminist criticism continues to pay attention to what is done to women, to women's role as objects, but it also pays serious heed to women as doers, as subjects and agents, seeing a complex dialogue between women as objects of patriarchy and women as agents of their own future" (Parker 158)
    - - "Crenshaw argues that people working against antiblack racism tend to think of blacks as men and overlook black women. Meanwhile, people working against sexism tend to think of women as white and, again, overlook black women" (Parker 179
        
        "Without realizing it, antiracist and antisexist theorists and activists often suppose that we can describe the plight of black women by adding together the plight of blacks and the plight of women. But Crenshaw argues that merely adding the categories erases the specific obstacles that work against black women" (Parker 179)
        
        "Crenshaw argues that we can only understand the position of black women by thinking of black women as both blacks and women, not as blacks plus women or as women plus blacks" (Parker 181)