Women's Writing

ENGL 214 is a course on the study of writing by and for women in American, British, and/or the diaspora of Anglophone literature. This course will explore how gender and such factors as race, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or class shape women's lives; the emergence of the category “women writers” and its relationship to literary studies; and conditions affecting women's literacy and literary production. The course can focus on a single historical or literary period, a particular genre, or a specific theme (education, marriage, politics, society). The course will focus on critical thinking and the vocabularies used when discussing literature as well as an introduction to and the employment of literary criticism/theory. The course will include a diversity of voices within the literature selected.

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