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Feminist critics have long debated the extent to which gender plays a role in the creation and interpretation of texts. Androgyn

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问题     Feminist critics have long debated the extent to which gender plays a role in the creation and interpretation of texts. Androgynist poetics, rooted in mid-Victorian women’s writing, contends that the creative mind is sexless, but from the 1970s on, many feminist critics rejected the idea of the genderless mind, finding that the imagination cannot evade conscious or unconscious structures of gender which is part of culture-determination where separating imagination from the self is impossible.
    The Female Aesthetic, expressing a unique female consciousness in literature, spoke of the "female vernacular, the Mother Tongue, a powerful but neglected women’s culture". Virginia Woolf discusses how a woman writer seeks within herself "the pools, the depths, the dark places where the largest fish slumber", inevitably colliding against her own sexuality to confront "something about the body, about the passions". Accessible to men and women alike, but representing female sexual morphology, this method sought a way of writing which literally embodied the female, thereby fighting the subordinating, linear style of classification or distinction.
    It must be admitted that there are problems with the Female Aesthetic that feminist critics themselves recognized. For instance, they avoided defining exactly what constituted their writing style, as any definition would then categorize it and safely subsume it as a genre under the linear patriarchal structure-its very restlessness and ambiguity defied identification as part of its identity. Some feminists and women writers could feel excluded by the surreality of the Female Aesthetic and its stress on the biological forms of female experience, which also bear close resemblance to essentialism. Men may try their hand at writing woman’s bodies, but according to the feminist critique, only a woman whose very biology gave her an edge could read these texts successfully-a position Which, worst of all, risked marginalization of women’s literature and theory.
    Later, Gynocritics attempted to resolve some of these problems, by agreeing that women’s literature lay as the central concern for feminist criticism but rejecting the concept of an essential female identity and style, while simultaneously seeking to revise Freudian structures by emphasizing a Pre-Oedipal phase wherein the daughter’s bond to her mother inscribes the key factor in gender identity. Matriarchal values dissolve intergenerational conflicts and build upon a female tradition of literature rather than the struggle of Oedipus and Lais at the crossroads, lastly and most promising in its achievement of a delicate balance are developments of an overarching gender theory, which considers gender, both male and female, as a social construction built on biological differences. Gender theory proposes to explore ideological inscription and the literary effects of the sex/system, opening up the literary theory stage and bringing in questions of masculinity into feminist theory. Taking gender as a fundamental analytic category brings feminist criticism from the margin to the center, though it risks depoliticizing the study of women.
According to the passage, the greatest risk posed by the feminist theories, like the Female Aesthetic which posit the existence of an "essential" or non constructed gender is in______.
选项 A、creating a dead-end for feminist literary criticism by attacking the notion of an androgynist poetics
B、reinforcing sexist notions that women cannot emulate the literary style of men
C、pushing feminist writing out of the mainstream by arguing that men are unable to fully comprehend women’s writing
D、relying too heavily on the theories of Freud, under which identity is the product of biology
答案C
解析 本题为细节分析题。根据第三段中“Men may try their hand at writing woman’s bodies，but according tothe feminist critique，only．a woman whose very biology gave her an edge could read these texts successfully——aposition which，worst of all，risked marginalization of women’s literature and theory．”可知，一些女性主义的理论存在一些不足之处。她们拒绝准确定义女性主义文学本身，认为身为女性的生理决定，只有她们才能理解女性作家的作品。这使得女性文学和理论存在被边缘化的危险。C选项符合原文意思。文中并没有说这是将女性主义文学批判带向死胡同。因此，A选项错误。文章重点强调男性不能理解女性主义文学，而B选项偷换概念，文章并没有提及说女性不能模仿男性作家，故排除。D选项与该理论带来的危害无关。因此，C选项正确。
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