These questions are political in the sense that the debate over them will inevitably be less an exploration of abstract matters in a spirit of disinterested inquiry than an academic power struggle in which the careers and professional fortunes of many women scholarsonly now entering the academic profession in substantial numberswill be at stake , and with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding, a contribution that might be an important influence against sexism in our society.
As long as the academic establishment continues to regard objective analysis as masculine and an intuitive approach as feminine, the theoretician must steer a delicate philosophical course between the two. If she wishes to construct a theory of feminist criticism, she would be well advised to place it within the framework of a general theory of the critical process that is neither purely objective nor purely intuitive. Her theory is then more likely to be compared and contrasted with other theories of criticism with some degree of dispassionate distance.
17. Which of the following titles best summarizes the content of the passage?
How Theories of Literary Criticism Can Best Be Used
Problems Confronting Women Who Are Feminist Literary Critics
A Historical overview of Feminist literary Criticism
A New Theory of Literary Criticism
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