Queer studies are also knowns as sexual diversity studies and LGBT studies. It focuses on lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people,...

Psychoanalytic feminism is a theory of oppression. It asserts that men have an inherent psychological need to subjugate women. The root...

In feminist literary criticism, stereotypes and other cultural assumptions are both reflected and shaped by literature. Literature is...

Gender, sexuality, and identity are studied interdisciplinary. Traditionally, gender studies has drawn upon other theoretical models such...

The work of Sigmund Freud influences the study of the unconscious and human behaviour. It is Freud's belief that human responses to the...

It is a school of literary Theory that focuses on the reader and their experience of a literary work. It focuses primarily on the author...

In the 1980s, Michel Foucault and Stephen Greenblatt developed a similar critical approach to Marxism in their works. The New Historicist...

New Criticism was a formalist literary theory movement that dominated American literary Criticism in the middle of the 20th century. It...

It refers to approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. Jacques Derrida first introduced it in his book Of...

Structuralism is a 1949 approach derived from linguistics. It attempts to analyze a specific field as a complex system of interrelated...

Postmodernism is associated with the disciplines of deconstruction and post-structuralism. It developed in the mid-20th century as a...

It is the critical academic study of colonialism and Imperialism's cultural, political and economic legacy. It focuses on the impact of...

Globalization: It involves the transmission of ideas, meanings, and values worldwide in a way that extends and intensifies social ties....

Media theory focuses on the effects of utilizing new media, like new textual experiences and new ways of representing the world. There...

Cultural Studies is a multidisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture. It also includes popular...