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It projects how ‘feminine values penetrate and undermine the masculine systems that contain them’.

Its study ‘focuses on the newly visible world of female culture’ ‘hypotheses of a female sub–culture’ ‘the occupations, interactions, and consciousness of women’. It proposes ‘to construct a female framework for the analysis of women’s literature, to develop new models based on women’s experience’. It reviews the trajectory of the individual or collective female literary career. It studies linguistics and the problem of a female language in literary text. Its ‘subjects include the psychodynamics of female creativity. Its prime concern is to see ‘woman as producer of textual meaning, with the history themes, genres, and structures of literature by women’.

Rather gynocritics aims to understand the specificity of women’s writing not as a product of sexism but as a fundamental aspect of female reality.

This does not mean that the goal of gynocritics is to erase the differences between male and female writing gynocritics is not “on a pilgrimage to the promised land in which gender would lose its power, in which all texts would be sexless and equal, like angels”.