Maria Nunez Intro :)

Hola my name is Maria Nunez. I am in this course because I am an English major and I will take any excuse to do a CCC as an english course. I actually am interested in the topic of women writers because I want to know what that means to other people, personally I don't understand why women are not just writers. I also want to know what that means to the writers themselves. All races, nationalities, religions, etc. have women but we seem to still treat women as inferior beings even in countries like the United States that are so "forward" thinking. The quote that interested me most was, 

"Jan Morris said that she was in the process of transcending gender and was aiming at becoming a horse, to which Nayantara Sahgal replied that she hoped that it was an English horse, since in some other, poorer countries, horses were not treated very well. Which underlined, for all of us, that there are categories other than male or female worth considering," (Popva). 

I think that this quote struck me most because it made me think of a discussion that we had in a poetry class last year about social location. Social location is essentially how you as an individual interact with the world based on everything that makes you up, from gender to race, to nationality, to language, to your parents, anything and everything. We talked about the fact that women are usually grouped into one giant mass but because of social location we can not say that the struggles of all women are the same, and the question came up about whether or not we should have one collective women's movement or if women should split based on their social location. 

One of the things that I thought about when signing up for this class was "Yes, a class that isn't centered around male writers!" But then I became to think about the fact that women are expected to cheer other women on solely because they are women. For example I think twilight is awful, but I was once told that I should support Stephanie Meyer because her book was a bestseller and that is breaking barriers for women. My response was that yes she was a best selling author which showed that women authors can sell books, but all of her female characters kind of suck which I felt set women back a few years. I think this class will be interesting because there is so much to get into and there are already so many different opinions in our class. :)