Chapter 1

Pioneering Feminist Prose

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Excerpts)

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Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

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The necessity of financial independence and space

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Androgyny and the critique of patriarchy

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The recovery of female literary history

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Chapter 2

Confessional and Contemporary Poetry

Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath

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Eunice de Souza: 'Advice to Women', 'Bequest'

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Margaret Atwood: Selected Poems

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The personal is political: Body, trauma, and identity

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Subverting traditional female roles in verse

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Chapter 3

Women and Fiction: The Novel

Alice Walker: The Color Purple

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

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Intersectionality: Race, Gender, and Class

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Epistolary narrative as a tool of empowerment

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Medical discourses and female madness

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Chapter 4

Autobiography and Memoir

Pandita Ramabai: The High Caste Hindu Woman (Excerpts)

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior (Selections)

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Life writing and the assertion of the self

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Cultural displacement and mother-daughter relationships

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Challenging the canon through personal narratives

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Chapter 5

Feminist Literary Theory

Elaine Showalter: 'Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness'

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Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (Introduction)

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Gynocriticism and the female aesthetic

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Woman as 'The Other'

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Post-feminism and contemporary debates

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