R:  Read in depth: Anne Bradstreet: Poems on women and poetry. 
Text readings: Cavendish, "The Poetess' Hasty Resolution" & "An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Verses" (p. 94); Killigrew, "Upon the Saying That My Verses Were Made by Another" (p. 164); Astell, "Ambition" (189), Emily Dickinson, 441- This is my Letter to the World" (p. 867),  "508-"I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs" (p. 869), "613-They shut me up in Prose--" (p. 874), "709-Publication --is the Auction" (p. 876) 

Finding her way through stories:
Week 2: T: Isak Dinesen, "The Blank Page" (p. 1391) and Gubar article on story, Marshall, "Poets in the Kitchen" (p. 1946)  Joy Harjo, "Remember" [login: engweb; password: bluebird] 

R:  Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (p. 1917) , Maxine Hong Kingston, "No-Name Woman"  (p. 2239) , 
Re-reading the story: Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour"

Rewriting the myths:
Week 3: T: Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck (p. 1960)," "When We Dead Awaken" ,  Julian of Norwich, "God the Mother," (p. 15), Denise Levertov, "The Goddess" and "Song for Ishtar" (p. 1863) 
Eve: Aemilia Lanyer, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women," (p. 42), Christina Rosetti, "Eve" (p. 915), Stevie Smith "How Cruel is the Story of Eve"( p. 1622), Wright, "Eve to her daughters" (p. 1741)  {Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer; Garden of Eden}

R:  Greek Mythology: Muriel Rukeyser, "Myth" (p. 1701), Margaret Fuller, "Muse and Minerva" (p. 413 ) 
Venus: Muriel Rukeyser, "The Birth of Venus" {"The Birth of Venus"} (1695), (Images and myths about Aphrodite, the Greek name for Venus; Story of Uranus) 
 Eurydice: H.D. Eurydice (p. 1412--read on-line hypertext too), Graham, "Orpheus and Eurydice (p. 2336) {Orpheus and Eurydice}
Medusa: Louise Bogan, "Medusa" (p. 1569), May Sarton, "The Muse as Medusa" (p. 1690), Sylvia Plath "The Disquieting Muses" (p. 2081), "Medusa" (p. 2093) 

Week 4: T: Adrienne Rich, "When We Dead Awaken" (p. 1980) 
Revising Fairy Tales: Angela Carter, "The Company of Wolves" (p. 2232) {Little Red Riding Hood}, Anne Sexton, "Cinderella" {Cinderella Project}, Margaret Atwood," "There Was Once" (p. 2228) 

Retrieving the Tradition
R: :Amy Lowell "The Sisters" (1271), May  Sarton, "My Sisters O My Sisters," (1686), Carolyn Kizer, from Pro Femina (1894),Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" (2315); "Infection in the Sentence"
Re-reading paper 1

Growing Up Female
Week 5: T: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (468) Try to read to p. 636 for this discussion.
R: Jane Eyre, continued 

Week 6: T: Anne Bradstreet, "In Reference to Her Children," Meridel Le Sueur, "Annunciation" (1586), Anais Nin, "Birth" (1624), Linda Pastan, "Notes from the Delivery Room," Gwendolyn Brooks, "the mother" (1788), Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl" (2335), Alice Munro, "Boys and Girls" 
R:  Marge Piercy, "All Clear," Edna St. Vincent Millay,"I, Being a Woman...", Gertrude Stein, "The Gentle Lena" (1277) 

Week 7: T; Kate Chopin:The Awakening (1101) Web materials on The Awakening
R: Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle (1702), Katherine Porter, "Jilting of Granny Weatherall" (1482) 
Class Participation Grade 1

Week 8:T: Midterm in-class test and comparison essay

Fighting Injustice
R:  Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (919) 

Week 9:T; Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (225),  Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (255) 

R:  Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought" (246), Sojourner Truth (369), Stowe, from Uncle Tom's Cabin (444), Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (460) 

Week 10: T:  Toni Morrison, Sula (1993), Bonner, "On Being Young--a Woman--and Colored" (1577), Hurston, "How It Feels to be Colored Me" (1498) Margaret Walker, "On Being Female, Black, and Free"

Living on the Edge
R : Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1133) & Web text   and other resources

Week 11:T: Glaspell, "Trifles" (1351) Major author/work paper is due to group

R:  Dickinson, "303-The Soul Selects (862),"280-"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (861), "365-Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat" (865)"435-"Much Madness is divinest Sense" (867), "479-She dealt her pretty words" (869), "670-"One need not be a Chamber--to be Haunted" (876), "1705-Volcanoes be in Sicily" (885); Pastan, "Emily Dickinson,"    Plath, "Ariel" (2094), "Lady Lazarus" (2097), "Edge," (2099) Sexton, "Her Kind," "Sylvia's Death" (1910),Wakoski, "Blue Monday" (2144) 

Week 12: T: Joyce Carol Oates,  "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (2203), Atwood, "Rape Fantasies" (2222) 

Women and Nature
R:  Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron" (1004), Annie Dillard, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annotate the text!

Week 13: T; Margaret Atwood, ""Marsh Languages" (2220), "Spelling (2216), Terry Tempest Williams, "The Bowl" with Annotator, Gretel Ehrlich, "Architecture" [notes on Vera Norwood's Made From This Earth.; "Mother Nature is a Bitch"]

Week 15 T: Re-read novel , Anzaldua, "Tulli, Tlapalli" (2272) 
Class participation grade 2
R;  In-class portion of the final exam (you must come in person). The essay portion will be due to my box by (preferably before) the scheduled date of the final exam.