1. Women and Literature: Spring 2019
Reading and writing assignments due on the dates below. We will have reading
quizzes on the assigned readings so it’s important to keep up.
April 10
Buy books for the class.
Read an annotate Lois Tyson’s Feminist Criticism (I will pass this out in class).
April 15
In our Course Reader: read:
“Sleeping Beauty” pg. 1-3 and “Cinderella ”4-7
Make sure you bring Lois Tyson’s essay from last class’s discussion.
April 17
Quiz #1
In our Reader: read and annotate:
“Someday My Prince Will Come” 69
And Read
“Snow White” 8
“Beauty and the Beast” 13
“Rapunzel” 22
April 22 Read and annotate “Young Women in Dystopia” (Handout from class)
Read Blood Red Road, pgs. 1-55
April 24 First paper on folktales due.
Read Blood Red Road pgs. 59-80
April 29 Read Blood Red Road pgs. 85-199
Quiz #2 next class
May 1 Read Blood Red Road pgs. 199-345
May 6 Read Blood Red Road pgs. 345-373
May 8 Read Blood Red Road pgs. 377-the end of the book.
Final quiz #3 on the book next class.
May 13 Read and annotate: “Mothers and Daughters: Giving the Lie” pg. 85-88 in
the course reader.
Read the poem Parturition in the course reader pgs. 25-28
2. May 15 Essay 2 due
Read Joy Luck Club: The Red Candle: 49-66
Rules of the Game 89-100
Four directions: 166-184
Double Faces 253-266
May 20 Quiz #4
Read Joy Luck Club
The Scar 42-48
Half and Half: 116-121
Without Wood: 185-196
Magpies: 215-242
May 22 In-class midterm
Intro to intersectionality and stories about African American mothers and
daughters.
Memorial day holiday: May 27
May 29 Read “Everyday Use” and “Kiswana Browne” pg.s 40-54 in course reader.
June 3 Quiz #5
Read The Moths and The Ruins pgs. 29-29 in the course reader.
June 5 Read “We Might as We Might As Well Be Strangers” and “The Honorary
Shepherds” in the course reader pgs. 55-68
June 10 Quiz #
Read I Stand Here Ironing ( in Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I and Other Works
By Tillie Olsen
June 12 Essay #3 due
Read “On Being an Aging woman” in the course reader pg. 93-100
Read Tell Me A Riddle 57-74
June 17 Quiz #7
Read Tell Me A Riddle 57-98
June 29 Discussion of Women and Aging and essay assignment. Preparation for
Final
