Welcome to the academic, sometimes seriously scholarly stuff. All of these papers are here for you to explore what we're thinking about women writers and women's issues. Some of them are more in the "autobiographical essay" category, but are still thoughtful discusisons of women's lives/writing/etc.
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Thoughts on Women Writers: A Speech
"Me! Books! And Cleverness!:" Stereotypical Portrayals in the Harry Potter Series
The Teacher's Body
Silencing Voices
Join the Club: Women's Reading Trends in the 20th Century
Gender in the Jungle: The Voyage Out as a Response to Heart of Darkness
Excerpt from "A Manifesto for a Feminist Narrative Poetic"
La Llorona y El Grito / The Ghost and The Scream: Noisy Women in Borderlands and Beyond
Ghastly Confidences: War and Transgressive Sexuality in Sylvia Townsend Warner's "A Love Match"
Dressing Up for a Book Party
Becoming a Feminist in the Bible Belt
Read a response to the above essay
Patriarchy Meets the Man-Eating Goddess
New Pedagogy and Practice: Feminism, Composition, and the Computer also Me, You, the Wide World: Letters & Women's Activism in Nineteenth Century America
No Girls Allowed: Women Poets and the Beat Generation
'Women who write should . . . dress well'
Clear Lines in Black Boy and Their Eyes were Watching God
An Examination of A Voyage to Russia (1739): The First Travel Account Published by an Englishwoman
Fairy Tales, Feminism, and CHOICE
Ceremonies That Defeat Despair: A Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Who Goes There and How?: Lesbians and Disability
Working Race: Speech, Silence and Women's Work as Racial Politics in Denise Chávez and Ana Castillo
Why I Write "Historicals"
Can Women Writers Survive the Creative Writing Workshop?
The Manifesta of Fredonia Woolf
Last update: July 2007 Site launch, July 19, 1999-- August 19, 1999 @ new URL
