ENGL 355Women Writers & Feminist Thry

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(D) This course examines women's literary traditions in England and America from the 19th century to the present. In particular, it explores how literary texts written by men have represented and defined women, and how female writers have responded to, revised, or challenged those representations, in both their literary and theoretical writings. We will also examine whether the category of "women writers" is itself a problem, given the wide variety of female voices, and critiques of Anglo-American feminist theory by African American, postcolonial, and lesbian feminist critics.