The, "Feminist Criticism" (1960's-Present), is a resource meant to help the reader understand feminist criticism. This resource first states what feminist criticism is. Feminist criticism is concerned with, “the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or underline the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women.” This theory focuses on how aspects of culture, are male dominated. This critique tries to show misogyny in male writing about women, and how this misogyny can spread into diverse areas of culture. An example presented is from the world of modern medicine, in which drugs that are prescribed for both male and female, are only tested on male subjects. "Feminist criticism," also concerns the exclusion of women writers, from the traditional literary canon. Unless the critical or historical point of view is feminist, women writers are under-represented. This resource then goes to the next topic of common space in Feminist Theories. There are many different approaches in the criticism, and there exist some areas of commonality among these approaches. There are 6 listed in this resource. The first is that women are oppressed by a male dominated society, economically, politically, socially, and psychologically. The second point is that in a society organized on patriarchal line, the woman is, “other.” She is treated as insignificant, and defined only by how she differs from male norms and values. The third point states that in Anglo-European civilization, the ideology of a male dominated society, is deeply embedded in their ideology. For instance, the Bible portrays Eve as the origin of sin, and death of the world. The fourth point is that culture determines our gender as masculine or feminine, though biology determines our sex, whether its male or female. The fifth point is that when it comes to feminist activity, whether its feminist theory or literary criticism, it’s ulti