Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course.
Today there is no woman, only an overgrown child. . . .
Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not. Seek within yourselves to find out what you are. A radical critique of literature, feminist in its impulse, would take the work first of all as a clue to how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to imagine ourselves, how our language has trapped as well as liberated us, how the very act of naming has been till now a male prerogative. . . . Read one after another, the above quotations over some 300 years represent the continual struggle of women writers to get themselves and their ideas heard. Indeed, of the 2,452 pages in the anthology we will use for our course, literature by women from the 19th century begins on page 283, while literature by women from the 20th begins on page 961.