Kayleigh Ricks Intro

Hello everyone! I am a sophomore Early Childhood/Childhood education major with a concentration in music. I'm mainly taking this course for a CCC credit, but I also signed up for the class because it sounded interesting, and I have heard a lot of good things about it. I hope to learn a lot in this class and expand my knowledge on various Women Writers.

Introduction

Hello All,

My name is Ashley Huten and I am physically a sophomore this year at Fred but academically a junior in hopes to graduate early! I am a transfer student from East Carolina University in the state of North Carolina and so far I've already noticed huge differences in the the two schools, let alone two different states! I'm looking very forward to finding my way into becoming an activist in many activities here at Fredonia and look forward to getting to know all of you. So far the topics we've discussed are all very interesting and I love all the diverse responses and beliefs. Can't wait to really get into things!

Kaelyn Sullivan- Introduction

Hello everyone! My name is Kaelyn Sullivan and I am a senior, Communication Studies major. 

Women Writers interests me because most of my literature classes have focused on male authors. I hope to learn about the different themes in the authors’ writings and compare the similarities and differences to the male authors I have studied. I look forward to learning about the personal lives of these women and how it  affected their writing. It is hard for me to imagine a world where women were not encouraged to tell their stories.  I have a lot of respect for the challenges these women faced to voice their opinion and I know I can learn a lot from taking this class.  

“According to their journals and essays, they write to express deep feelings, send messages to others, create alternate worlds, make order of chaos, seek transcendence, celebrate themselves.” pg. 2

I enjoyed this quote from the first section of the Anthology because I feel it accurately describes what we will be discussing throughout the semester. I am excited for a fun and interesting class! 

Intro

Hello, my name is Sommer. It is pronounced just like the season.  I am a sophomore here at Fredonia.  My major is Inclusive Childhood Education with a MS extension and an English concentration.  I live in Rochester but more specifically Gates.  The beginning of this book points out a lot of information in regards to the rest.  I really like the idea when they talk about how women have been censored for so long, yet men have almost never had to be censored.  The book is a great combination of important epic works of literature by women who weren't afraid to go above and beyond in a man's world. 

Meghan Kelley: introduction

Hi, this is Meghan Kelley. I am currently a sophomore and a music education and math major. My whole life I have grown up in a "feminist-approved and encouraged" household. I'm excited that I can finally cultivate and broaden whatever knowledge I learned growing up, in this class.

Introduction

Hello fellow Women Writer companions! I'll start out by saying that my name is Stacie McElroy, I am a junior at SUNY Fredonia, and I am a Childhood Inclusive major with a concentration in English, hence the main reason why I am taking this class.  It wasn't a random pick, however.  I am really interested in learning about how the number of women authors expanded so greatly, especially in recent years.  It amazes me how much women used to be criticized for just wanting to write and share their ideas/thoughts.  I couldn't imagine living in a world like that now, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to.  Some of the comments men made about women writers, such as "women who practice literary arts are not 'real women'" I find appalling.  I really admire these women for standing up to these ignorant men and intensively proving them wrong.

Liz Roberti (Introduction)

Hey everyone my name is Liz Roberti!  I'm from Long Island, NY. I'm a junior this year at Fredonia.  I'm majoring in Psychology and i'm not sure yet about my minor.  I absolutely love majoring in Psych, I find it so interesting to study human behavior and learn about all the reasons why they behave these ways.  I find this class and the readings particularly interesting because to me these women writers express a lot of how they're feeling through their writing and just through explaining the hardships they have faced.  I just finished reading the chapter on Virginia Woolf and she has definitely been through a great deal throughout her life, i'm excited to hear everyone elses opinions on A Room of One's Own.  I look forward to getting to know everyone and having our class discussions!

Introduction

Hey I'm Erin Slattery.

 I'm a junior majoring in psychology. I took Psychoogy of Women and found it extremely interesting and so I thought I would take another women studies course and so far this seems really interesting too! I can't wait to learn more about the subject!

Hi ladies!

Hi ladies, my name is Katie Nolan, and I am a junior Communication Disorders and Sciences major here at Fredonia. I have always enjoyed reading, and look forward to being introduced to more authors throughout this class.

One point that I find fascinating is how women overcame the struggle of their sexuality, and role in society. How women first rebelled and began writing is very exciting to me. Women have a different perspective then men. It's why we are always bickering, right? I find it intriguing that certain women in history were able to branch out and write their opinions on paper. One of my favorite authors, Agatha Christie, who is a late eighteen/early ninteen hundreds author, once wrote under various surnames, so that more people would purchase and read her books. I love learning about the history and particular moments that made women begin writing.

I look forward to this class, and all the thoughts and opinions from my peers!

Introduction!

Hello everyone,
My name is Chelsea Balaz. I am a senior Childhood Inclusive Education major with a concentration in English. I hope to teach in a special education classroom once I have graduated. I am interested in learning about the struggle women had not that long ago to gain women rights. It is so crazy to think about the fact that not long ago, women were still not given equal rights and opportunities! I cannot imagine not being able to go to school, write, and speak my mind. I am very interested in learning about the pieces these famous and courageous women wrote that paved the way for women today to have a voice. I do not know if I would have been as brave as these women who took a stand and shared their opinions to show people that men were not dominate and did not always have the most accurate statements about women. I look forward to discussing these pieces of literature with all of you ladies!

Woah!

Our names sound so melodic and exotic lined up like that together! Well, my own name is Rebekah, which next to many of your lovely names sounds like a mouth full of rocks, and I'm just going to say I am extremely excited to already be falling behind on the reading. Or, at least, already nervous about falling behind on the reading. I had no idea A Room of One's Own was an essay before this, and I guess I didn't know what I was getting myself into, but for now, V. Woolf's wit is just astounding to me. See you all tomorrow!

Hi everyone!

My name is Amanda Pruden and I am a sophomore psychology major with a women's studies minor. I hope to soon change my major to women's studies and minor in either public relations or communications instead. One thing that I realized from our last class is that women take a lot for granted, in writing at least. Years ago, women weren't even allowed to go to college, let alone write a novel. It's truly amazing how far we have advanced just in the past decade. There will always be a battle for women, for any minority, to fight, but we are making progress every day. I am really excited about this class, and I look forward to the different subjects we are going to cover this semester.

Introduction!

Hi, my name is Jessica Mothersell and I am a sophomore from Geneseo, New York. I am majoring in Childhood Inclusive Education with a Middle School Extension in English and I have a passion for working with children. I am very excited to be taking this class. I think it is so cool that a class of all females can develop a greater understanding of what women just like us had to go through to get to where we are today. In the two classes we have had, I have already learned a lot. This class has really made me think, realize how lucky women are today, and develop an even greater respect for the women who broke down the male dominated writing barrier. Women writers from a long time ago had a lot of strength, passion, and guts. It is so sad that some of them had to choose between writing and “losing their womanhood.” Like many of you, I also find it crazy that only 8% of authors in the 1970’s were females because that was only 40 years ago. I find it very interesting that some women who were writers felt that they related more to the “male” persona in general. I hate the fact that society sometimes looks down on women and thinks that they are not as good as men in certain regards, especially when they have proven what they are capable of time and time again. Throughout history, women have not been given credit for accomplishments, had opportunities to succeed, or taken seriously due to the fact that they are women which is horrible. For example, today in my Women in Global Cinema class, I learned about the first documented movie director, a French woman named Alice Guy-Blanche, and I was horrified to see how little credit she received for all of her accomplishments. Nobody knows who she is despite the fact that she created hundreds of movies, and many of them were lost. Only now is she beginning to receive all of the credit she deserves, almost a century later, and people cannot even appreciate any of her masterpieces. Anyways, I look forward to talking with you all more and learning more from our class discussions! It is always interesting to hear different people’s point of view!

 

Hello Everyone!

Hey ladies,
My name is Merique Suliveras and this is my second year here at Fredonia. When I came into Fred I was originally a theater arts major. I came from a performing arts high school and I thought theater was my passion and what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. In my theater seminar that I took my first semester one of the main things that my professor stressed the most was that if you could see yourself doing something else then do that instead. Although theater is still a really big passion of mine, an even bigger passion I possess is helping people. My second semester of Freshmen year I switched my major to psychology and I put in a criminal justice minor. I thought I wanted to be a forensic psychologist and help the cops profile criminals and get them off the street. I quickly learned that that police force was not for me. I am currently still a psychology major but I am switching to a sociology minor with a focus on school and counseling. I want to help children get the most out of their education when it's most important, in the fundamental stages. I want to help them figure out why they aren't learning as efficiently as other students and I also want to help them overcome personal issues that may be hindering their school work.
Out of all of my classes this semester this is the class I most look forward to going to. I've always loved reading and literature. I even considered being an English teacher at one point.  I love that we're all women and we are all learning about how much of a struggle it was for women to break into the literary world. I think a lot of the time people forget how recent it actually was that women were given basic rights and that the first woman published a book not many decades ago. I'm very excited to get to know everyone's point of view in the class. It should be a great semester girls!

Hello Ladies

Hey folks! My name is Melissa Rechin and I'm currently starting my second year at Fred. When I first started as a freshman, I was pretty much all over the board with what I wanted to do both with my life in the future and what degree I should get to put me there. I started off as an English major knowing that my love of writing and literature is something that I wanted to keep during my career in future years. But, after switching things around so that I could study almost everything I enjoy, I am now pursuing a journalism degree with both english and photography minors. Just like how writing has been a love and passion of mine, I have been enjoying photography since my pre teen years. Up until recently, I only considered photography a hobby or interest and not something I should pursue professionally.  With a push from family and friends, I decided to put photography into the mix and let me tell ya, I couldn't be more happy. There's just something so satisfying about studying and pursuing the things that you love.  So, all in all, I'm essentially just your average teenage photographer, writer, thrifter, dreamer, shoe obsessed, optimistic Buffalonian just enjoying the ride.

Let me just say how excited I am for this class. Reading and comparing different literature to not only each other, but also to society at the time or different cultures is something that I truly enjoy doing. Not to mention the fact that we are focusing solely on women and the struggles and hardships they faced, and still face, as writers simply for their sex. I have a favorite quote said by Betty White, "Why do people say 'Grow some balls'? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you really wanna get tough, grow a vagina. Those things take a pounding."  I think that this quote supports what the introduction of the anthology was saying about women's roles in a completely dominant male profession.   Although women have greatly achieved their rights and a higer role in society, still in almost everything said and done today there is a male dominance. Such as in our phrases like "grow a pair" or the use of the "he" pronoun more extensively than the "she" pronoun, society today, especially in the professional world, are still led by more men. I'm very interested to dive into this anthology and witness the strength of these women defying and uprooting the world they've been following.

Intro

Hello Ladies, my name is Samantha Frew but you all can call me Sam. I am a Social Work Major with a minor in English. I know this may seem like a weird combination but I have had a long journey here on the Fredonia campus. I was originally accepted to this school for childhood education. Then I ended up switching to Psychology and that didn't end up working. After that I tried to get back into the education department with a concentration in English. That did not work out either...I then decided to go into the social work program and I have fallen in love with it. I still want to be a high school counselor and this program offers many different jobs that I am interested in. I decided to declare English as my minor because I only needed two more 300 level English classes to finish the minor. So here I am taking one of the last two English classes I will have to take here at Fredonia. A little bit more about me is that I lived here in Fredonia my freshman, sophomore, and junior year of college. I am a senior now commuting from home which is an hour away from here around the Hamburg area.  I personally think this will be a very interesting class. There are so many different things that our textbook introduced to us in the preface that seem quite interesting. However, there was a lot mentioned about Feminist Theory. I have previously taken Critical reading and we learned about feminist theory in that class. I'm curious to find out if what I learned in that class will be the same as what we will learn in women writers. Another topic that I found to be interesting and slightly absurd is the fact that society believes that women are only supposed to take care of the household and be good mothers. There is a quote in one section of engendering language, silence and voice that says "one thing all writers need is balls" or something along those lines. How is it that people can really think this? I know this has changed throughout time but even back then what did it matter if women wanted to write or not. Women to me are the most interesting of all writers because there is very few of them and women are more knowledgeable then men in certain topics. I look forward to an interesting class in women writers and can not wait to see what else we will be learning this semester! =)

Hey Everyone!

Hello!!! My name is Kim Tydings. I am a Senior Psychology major and Sociology minor. My current plan after graduation is to go to graduate school for School/Adolescent Psychology and eventually work in a high school as a psychologist. I was considering double minoring and adding Women Studies. Unfortunately, by the time I decided, I wouldn't have graduated on time and it didn't seem worth it. Even though I didn't declare the minor, I was still able to take many Women Studies classes. I figured that learning about inequalities and disadvantaged groups would make me a more empathetic and well rounded counselor. Another reason I took this class is because I already took Feminist Theory with Prof. McGee. I absolutely loved it. The intensity of our conversations was so thought provoking. It wasn't a class I just breezed though and forgot about. I have a feeling that this class has the potential to leave just as much of a lasting impression. Fem theory introduced the topic of women's writers and I'm extremely interested in actually reading pieces related to Feminist Theory. 

Introduction

My name is Ashley Kelly. I am a freshman and still undecided about my major.  I am looking forward to this class because it is very different than my other classes, which are all lectures.   While reading the section on breaking or embracing silence my only thought of the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.  I have read that short story in high school and in a different college course and I thought it was interesting that later in the reading, that story was brought up.  I think that this short story showed that writing isn’t only about entertaining others but also has a factor in ones self growth.  I was shocked to see that only 8% of writers in the 1970’s were women.  I found that very disappointing because I believe that females have just as much to say and voice as a male does.  I am looking forward to the upcoming readings and discussions in class.

Introduction

My name is Kaylee Mitchell and I'm a Senior Childhood Inclusive Education major with a middle school extension and concentration in English. I hope to teach middle school English someday. I'm really interested to see what this course has to offer, and have never taken a course specifically devoted to women's writing only. As mentioned in class, many of the books we are required to read throughout the different courses we take at Fredonia are written by males. I've taken many English courses throughout my time here, and would definitely say the majority were written by men. When I read for my own pleasure, I find myself usually choosing female authors over men. As a class of all females it will be interesting to hear different ideas, and I look forward to the discussions to come!

Introduction

My name is Taylor Godlewski and I am a Childhood Education major with a concentration in English. I’m from Buffalo, New York and I’m a sophomore. I’m excited for this class and the topics we have been discussing so far. I think it’s so interesting how gender effects not only the author and how they write the work but also the reader and how they understand and interpret the work. I was shocked to find out that only 8% of works in the 1970’s were written by women.

Intorduction

Hi ! My name is Iana Spann . I am a senior chemistry major with a minor in Spanish. I chose this class because i thought that it was a fun way to get a ccc . I Found it interesting today how someone in class brought up the point made in the book about women feeling guilty for writing because it could take away from there "womanly duties" . I think  that this mindset it very unfair because if a women is spending her day being a wife and a mother; taking care of others, than she has more than earned the right to do something for herself as well , whatever that thing may be including writing. I also enjoyed the section on silence and voice , the following quote in particular ,"Many natural women have embraced natural silence as a source of strength and inspiration." (p.6)Often times people that are quiet can be seen as weak or docile , but on the contrary , i believe that quiet people are the most powerful. Silence is a form of control . For example when your upset with someone refusing to talk to them is a powerful tool . The one who speaks first in this case is typically seen as forfeiting the power . Silence keeps everyone waiting and wondering what you have to say and i believe that women have a better ability to say more with less words.

Introduction

My name is Colleen Wenzel and I am a sophomore here at Fredonia. I am from Long Island and I am an Early Childhood/Childhood dual major with an English concentration. I enjoy reading and writing and I have a great feeling about this class. Today's class discussion was interesting as well as eye opening. The introduction to this course explains the struggles and obstacles that so many women overcame in the literacy/writing world. As a class of all females we should be reading and learning as much as we can and be grateful of the progress women have made in the world of writing.

Introduction to women writers

Hi my names Jackie Moran, Im from buffalo new york and am a sophomore this year at Fredonia. My majors exercise science, but im really excited about some of my courses outside of my major this year! Last semester I took novels and tales and i really enjoyed how different the class was structured from my other classes.So im excited that this class will have alot of reading and writing as well. Today in class we began to discuss why women writers have such a significant role in society today. It was crazy to discover that only 8% of the reading material in the 1970s was written by women. I liked that someone in class today pointed out how much courage it took for women to write, it was perceived as "dangerous". While today its not as big of a deal.

Intro. of Course: Women's Writers, 314

My name is Tyra Henson and I am an English major. I love reading and writing but I'm not quite sure of what career path I wish to pursue with a degree in English. So far I do enjoy the Women's Writers Course this summer. Although, there has only been two class sessions, (haha) I do find that am already beginning to understand what the deal is about women in the literary world and why it is so challenging. Two very important pieces of information that I did receive from my peers within the small discussion period was how "dangerous" writing is, especially with a women behind the pen. Also that still in this day in age not many women even contribute to half of the literary work published. So far I have found this class to be enlightening and hopefully more fun and interesting as the weeks go forth.

Welcome

Hi All,

Welcome to your blog site for Women Writers. We will use this blog as a virtual extension of our class space. You will all be added as authors to the site so you will have full access to post on the blog. Although I may occasionally chime in, this blog is primarily a space for collaboration with your peers.

This site has been created in order to:

·         Extend learning opportunities beyond the confines of the scheduled class time and space, blurring rigid barriers between academic, campus, and community discourses

·         For those less easy with speaking in class, it provides a space where students can have the time to process ideas and contribute to the ongoing discussions of the course

·         Encourages a habit of writing as a collaborative act of communication and dialogue in which students may discuss reading responses, connections to local and global contemporary events, brainstorm papers, plan projects, ask questions, get feedback on rough drafts etc…

·         Provides a place where visual mediums such as photos, videos, diagrams may be easily shared as well as hyper-text and web links

·         Exposes students to alternative viewpoints and experience amongst peers as well as the opportunity to see how other students are working with and making connections with the course materials

·         Encourages students to form relationships built around academic work

        Although I have set up a basic template, you have free reign to suggest/implement new design elements. As a class you will need to decide whether you want this space to be private or open to public viewing and/or commenting. Please be aware, I will not post course information such as reading schedules,assignment descriptions, due dates, or the syllabus on this site- Please refer to ANGEL for this ongoing course information