Plays by and About Women . If you have never written a college-level essay about literature, or have been dissatisfied with grades received in other coursework essays, read and apply the advice from the following text before writng your short essay paper. A Guide for Students . All of the listed works, except the appendices, should be available at most public libraries. However, if your local library does not carry a copy of a work, speak to your librarian about interlibrary loan services or rural book loan policies for your area.
All texts are currently in print and available for purchase through any bookstore.
The recommended editions were chosen for availability, quality of textual editing, and cost. The course explores how many women writers have, and continue to depict, their relationships with each other and with men both within and across economic, familial, cultural, racial, sexual, and social borders. All reading selections were chosen for their ability to indicate the complex magnitude and diversity of topics that concern women writers across a variety of nations and cultures. So while the reading selections may appear too extensive in some respects, they are also tightly limited in others. These anthologies incorporate writers from many diverse cultural and social backgrounds from the past 100 years.