My Introduction

My name is Maelia Duncan and I am an English major. My interest in the course wasn't really an interest as much as it was a choice between women's writers and a poetry course and I hate poetry with a passion and I already had a class McGee and understood her teaching style so the decision was basically made for me.
“...addresses the issue of what it means for a women to be so bold as to write in a man’s literary world. How does she find her own voice--that...” I chose this quote because it brought me back to what we were speaking about in class on Wednesday. This world is so stuck in old ways that it seems to be okay for women writers to not be respected as just “writers” and they are forced into gender based categories. I also feel that some feminist can hinder that cause by pushing for equality while still separating the genders and creating a double standard like when it says “To examine women’s literature from a feminist perspective is to assume that the distinction between ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ is important to the generation of all writing.” while there should be respect given to both sides, I feel the importance of a women writers course is to give women a chance in a classroom setting and show them the respect that they were denied for so many years.