Choose the correct key points related to the approach of feminism and gender studies:

1. A. Feminism is concerned with the marginalization of women in a patriarchal culture.
2. B. Feminist critics explain how the subordination of women is reflected or challenged by literary texts; they examine the experiences of women of all races, classes, sexual preferences and cultures.
3. C. Mary Wollstonecraft defines four models of sexual difference: biological, linguistic, psychoanalytic and cultural.
4. D. Feminist critics aim to expose patriarchal premises and prejudices, promote the discovery and re-evaluation of literature by women, and examine the social, cultural and psychosexual contexts of literature and criticism.
5. E. Simone de Beauvoir prefers 'womanism' to 'feminism'.

1. AA, B and C only
2. BA, B and D only
3. CB, C and D only
4. DB, D and E only

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Correct answer: B. A, B and D only

Explanation

A, B and D are standard aims of feminist criticism. C is wrong: the four models of difference (biological, linguistic, psychoanalytic, cultural) come from Elaine Showalter's 'Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness' (1981). E is wrong: 'womanism' is Alice Walker's term (In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, 1983).