... Living Literacies of the Mountain Woman Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices since College. By Katherine Kelleher Sohn. Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. 224 pages. Meaghan Elliott When searching for a book to review for our graduate seminar, I wanted...

...Kay Siebler At many levels of the educational system, teachers use Sojourner Truth's speech “Ain't I a Woman” as a powerful example of women's rhetoric. This article examines the politics of privileging one version of the speech. The author makes a call to teachers to teach multiple versions...

...Jessica Enoch This article explores the pedagogical efficacy and learning outcomes of an archive-based undergraduate research project in which students digitally transcribed a nineteenth-century woman’s diary and then reflected on their transcription work. Rewriting a Woman s Life (Online) Archival...

...Stephen Behrendt Caroline Bowles's long narrative poem Ellen Fitzarthur (1820) offers a seduction tale reminiscent of Amelia Opie's The Father and Daughter (1801), tracing the seduction of a cloistered young woman by an unscrupulous military sailor taken in by Ellen's widower father after...

... conjectures,” I now “Bring forth our Heroe” after about fourteen years. In December 1980, Booth addressed undergraduates at the Liberal Arts Forum. His topic: “Is There Any Knowledge That a Woman Must Have?” The speech was prompted in part by the “flood” of letters (“well, there were three”) from...

... the periodical Good Things for the Young of All Ages (26 June 1875) that shows a tableau much like the one that Xantippe narrates within her monologue. In Levy’s poem Xantippe is taken aback when Sokrates pronounces Aspasia an exceptional woman but judges “woman” generally to be “frail —  / Her body...

... E. . 1997 . “Gender Differences in Sexual Activity among Mid-Aged Adults in Massachusetts.” Maturitas 26 : 175 – 84 . Jones Anne Goodwyn . 1981 . Tomorrow Is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859–1936 . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press . Lyons...

.... They have registered for one of three courses: Introduction to African American Studies, Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the United States, or African Americans and Photography. The class is taught by the only African American woman professor in the undergraduate college, and most...

... dedicated to social justice as a guiding ideal. They have registered for one of three courses: Introduction to African American Studies, Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the United States, or African Americans and Photography. The class is taught by the only African American woman...

.... They have registered for one of three courses: Introduction to African American Studies, Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the United States, or African Americans and Photography. The class is taught by the only African American woman professor in the undergraduate college, and most...

... for one of three courses: Introduction to African American Studies, Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the United States, or African Americans and Photography. The class is taught by the only African American woman professor in the undergraduate college, and most students have...

... dedicated to social justice as a guiding ideal. They have registered for one of three courses: Introduction to African American Studies, Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the United States, or African Americans and Photography. The class is taught by the only African American woman...

..., relationships, all of these will be recurring topics for our discussion. To arrive at what I wanted in the course, I decided to include Madame Bovary because I like the novel and because it features a truly unruly woman. You know the type — a bored, middle-­class young woman, full of romantic fan...

... of the classroom, would you consider yourself to be motivated by the larger goal of women s liberation? MBP: Almost all of what my practice is, now, has been a result of trying to live a life of liberation as a woman and as a lesbian. And in the process of doing that, which meant that I had to earn my living, I...

... of literature. The rest of this essay is devoted to demonstrating how reading Asian American literature through the gothic is performed in the classroom. Three narratives, Chang’s “Hunger” (1998), Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman (1997), and Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine (1989), are used as examples...

... diversity renders it an especially valuable text for teaching nineteenth-­ century literature. Autobiography Throughout the poem Aurora narrates events in her own voice, and her ini- tial situation as a young woman without financial resources evokes immediate Boos...

... . “The Positive within the Negative...” In The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective , ed. Amrita Basu and C. Elizabeth McGrory. Boulder, Colo.: Westview. Yamada, Mitsuye. 1983 . “Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman.” In This Bridge...

...: Reflections of Teachers at Midlife. Edited by Phyllis R. Freeman and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt. New York: Routledge, 2000. Terry Martin When they turned fifty, Phyllis R. Freeman and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt found themselves confronted by characterizations and stereotypes of the meno- pausal woman as virago, elder...

...: An Anthology . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Fordyce, James. 1766 . Sermons to Young Women in Two Volumes . London: n.p. Fuller, Margaret. 1843 . “The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men: Woman versus Women.” In American Transcendental Web , ed. Ann Woodlief. Virginia Commonwealth...

... -110. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. Daly, Brenda. 1998 . Authoring a Life: A Woman's Survival in and through Literary Studies . Albany: State University of New York Press. Davis, Jane. 2000 . The White Image in the Black Mind: A Study in African American Literature . Westport, CT:Greenwood...