Before the 1970s—in the first and second waves of feminism—feminist literary criticism was concerned with women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within literature; in particular the depiction of fictional female characters.
En xeral, a crítica literaria feminista antes da década de 1970—na primeira e segunda onda do feminismo—estaba preocupada coa autoría das mulleres e a representación da condición das mulleres dentro da literatura; incluíndo a representación de personaxes ficticias femininas.