Reading List - English
Blunt, A. & Guillian, R. (1994).
Writing women and space: Colonial and postcolonial geographies. New York: Guildford Press.
A collection of essays about white women’s writings that address how they wrote and what they wrote about in the late nineteenth century and today.
Larrington, C. (Ed.). (1997). The woman's companion to mythology. London: Harper Collins Publishers.
Myths have existed to explain a variety of phenonoma, and they often involve women. In this book, the major myths involving women are named and what these particular myths mean from a feminist point of view.
Pratt, A. (1977). Archetypal patterns in women’s fiction. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
Through comparisons of women’s fiction over the years, similarities in the forms of archetypes emerge. The comparison also leads to a contrast with men writers.
Woolf, V. (1995). A room of one’s own. New York: Cambridge University Press.
An essay in which Shakespeare has a sister. This sister is completely equal to Shakespeare in talent, genius, etc. but she is never remembered. This essay argues that she would have been remembered if she had the means to create great literature allowing the overall message of the essay to be that a woman must have a fixed income and a room of her own in order to have the freedom to create.