Women Writers, Fall 2012

Why am I  in love with Adrienne Rich? Well its simple really...she makes so many meaningful points in "Notes towards a Politics of Loca...

  Emily Dickinson was somewhat of a homebody. With that in mind how did she create such beautiful poems and so many at that. I mean most...

Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School : pIf there were fewer women and more “male aggression” in Sand...

In "the mother" Gwendolyn Brooks describes the guilt that goes into making the decision to have an abortion for a women. Why exact...

We have talked so much in class about how women are always looked at as sex objects. However, we have not talked about how children see ...

I also wanted to write a blog about "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth. I specifically loved the video that was shown in cl...

  After reading Emily Martin’s essay “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Bases on Stereotypic...

I know this blog post is a bit late, but figured I'd share my last thoughts of the semester. As you all know Barbara Kinsolver...

Blog Post 5 I wanted to take the time in this blog post to mention outside information on women and the way they are treated and looked t...

Trifles by Susan Glaspell was such an enjoyable read. I was surprised that such a short play could contain so much irony ...

Although my final blog post is a little late, writing my final paper for this class has inspired me to write about Wolf Alice by Angela Car...

Hi Ladies, I promised I'd let you know: It's a GIRL :-)

Ain't I Woman? I wanted to do Sojourner Truth's Ain't I Woman because I related back to her alot in my final project and I fi...

Poem 280   It is clear that Emily Dickinson is talking about a funeral, and initially I thought she was talking about her own. "...

Adrienne Rich's "Notes toward a Politics of Location" When I first read the title for this piece, I'm not gonna lie, I ...

Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" This is not the first time that I have read this speech. I actually got a chance t...

Ain't I a Woman? By Sojourner Truth Sojourner's speech expressed frustration on the ideals of the world and how they do...

On Being Brought from Africa to America By Phillis Wheatley   'TWAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted s...

The Muse as Medusa by Mary Sarton Medusa is such an empowering figure for feminists everywhere. At first glance one would not conside...

Oh man...one more blog? Seriously? Time has indeed flown. Anyways, I have been watching a lot of tv and movies lately and this class has mad...