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! =)