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Megan-Yulu Zhang meganchina@outlook.com The influence of feminism in…

- - - - 2010 to present
        
        The fourth wave:The field of feminist literature gradually shifted to the Internet.
        
        The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media（2014）
        
        The Vagenda was run by British journalists Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett; it was founded by ten London-based women journalists in their twenties and was then written by a large group of anonymous contributors from all over the world, both women and men. The editors stated: "the women's press is a large hadron collider of bullshit and something needed to be done". Cosslett describes The Vagenda as "a media watchdog with a feminist angle".
        
        MeToo movement
        
        Queenie（2019）
        Candice Carty-Williams
        In what is perhaps the funniest novel on this list, a 25-year-old Jamaican-British journalist finds herself single again after her longterm relationship with her white boyfriend goes in the bin. The breakup sets off a string of bad decisions from the eponymous heroine, who realizes for the first time just how toxic her old relationship was, as she explores her identity and puts herself out there once more.
        
        Compared with the previous situation, the influence of feminism on literature today is closely related to the Internet. The metoo movement that has emerged on the Internet has promoted the creation of feminist literature and has also affected the judgment of literature.
        
        The suspension of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
        The #MeToo sexual harassment scandal that shook up the Nobel Prize for Literature, and led to the unprecedented cancellation of the award in 2018, will be turned into a feature film.
      - The third wave：Feminist literature presents various new ways of expression.
        
        Non-fiction writing：Naomi Wolf
        
        The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women（1991）
        It's a big and bold work of nonfiction that put to paper the oppressive beauty ideals of the day. It cleverly traced the links between patriarchy, the ideals peddled in contemporary advertising and pornography and increased pressures for women to get surgery alongside rising numbers of eating disorder diagnoses.
        
        Film field：New Queer Cinema（1990s）
        
        The Hours and Times(1991)
        
        A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
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        The third wave of feminism challenged tradition in form, content and type. The boundaries that used to be more focused on form can now penetrate across multiple levels, that is, on themes of expression and focus on gender and desire identity, they can migrate and flow without fixed restrictions. In terms of topic selection, the new queer film focuses on social issues, further considers the status of LGBT groups in society and the problems encountered, and uses more realistic methods to expand the extension of feminism and expand the social influence of feminism.
    - - Jeanette Winterson
        Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
        
        Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
        The novel deals with themes of injustices between homosexual and heterosexual women, disposing prejudices about homosexuality, hetero-patriarchal society, and self-awareness and finding one’s own space. And the novel also explores the concept of a normal sexuality and refuses the prejudice against loving the "wrong" or "right" sort of people.
      - Elaine Showalter
        
        A Literature of Their Own (1977)
        Elaine Showalter pioneered gynocriticism with her book A Literature of Their Own (1977). Gynocriticism involves three major aspects. The first is the examination of female writers and their place in literary history. The second is the consideration of the treatment of female characters in books by both male and female writers. The third and most important aspect of gynocriticism is the discovery and exploration of a canon of literature written by women; gynocriticism seeks to appropriate a female literary tradition.
      - The Madwoman in the Attic(1979)
        Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
        In the work, Gilbert and Gubar examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective. They draw their title from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, in which Rochester's wife is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband.In their argument Gilbert and Gubar point to Virginia Woolf, who says women writers must "kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art".
      - Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers（1985）
        Compared with the previous feminism in literature which mainly focused on white middle-class women, in this time, writers such as Barbara Christian work to reconcile feminism with their own minority communities' concerns.
  - - - Jane Eyre(1847)
        As a feminist woman, Jane represents the insurgent
        women eager for esteem. Without esteem for other people, women like Jane can not get the real emancipation. In all Jane Eyre’s life, the pursuit of true love is an important representation of her struggle for self-realization.
    - - A Room of One's Own 1929
        As written in the article,Virginia Woolf wants women to be free in every field. She states that the rights given to men about working with equal rights as men, fair wages or equal pay, having equal right in education and sex equality should be given to women, as well.
        
        In the first and second waves of feminism,feminist literary criticism was concerned with women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within the literature; in particular the depiction of fictional female characters.