What significant development in feminist literary theory has emerged from insight of socialist feminism that both fiction and its readers are products of material conditions or specific social structures?
Hm, material conditions and social structures sounds like Marxism to me - as for the connection between socialism and literary theory, I can only think it may be something to do with marxism and ideology. I haven't actually studied this as a feminist, so don't take my word for it - but I would think something to do with Althusser, encoding and decoding, appelations in word usage, etc. Or it could be something more general about word usage maintaining power structures in society (critical linguistics) - ie, referring to 16 year old boys as 'men', and 93 year old women as 'girls' - etc. Is just a guess :-)
" referring to 16 year old boys as 'men', and 93 year old women as 'girls'" isn't about power structure; in general, younger women and older men are seen as attractive by people.
When you say "fiction and its readers are products of material conditions or specific social structures", I think you should talk about how, for example, most authors are educated, moderately well-off middle-class men aged 30-60 who live in cities in the Western world, and thus their viewpoints reflect those of such people.
really carrie I am not going to do your homework for you.
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