Readings and Assignments

1. Women and Literature: Spring 2017
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 12
 Buy books for the class.
 Read an annotate Lois Tyson’s Feminist Criticism (I will pass this out in class).
April 17
In our 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 19
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 24 Read and annotate “Young Women in Dystopia” Handout
Read Blood Red Road, pgs. 1-55
April 26 First paper on folktales due.
Read Blood Red Road pgs. 59-80
May 1 Read Blood Red Road pgs. 85-199
Quiz #2 next class
May 3 Read Blood Red Road pgs. 199-345
May 8 Read Blood Red Road pgs. 345-373
May10 Read Blood Red Road pgs. 377-the end of the book.
Final quiz #3 on the book next class.
May 15 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 17 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 22 Quiz #4
Read Joy Luck Club
The Scar 42-48
Half and Half: 116-121
Without Wood: 185-196
Magpies: 215-242
May 24 In-class midterm
Intro to intersectionality and stories about African American mothers and
daughters.
May 31 Read “Everyday Use” and “Kiswana Browne” pg.s 40-54 in course reader.
June 5 Quiz #5
Read The Moths and The Ruins pgs. 29-29 in the course reader.
June 7 Read “We Might as We Might As Well Be Strangers” and “The Honorary
Shepherds” in the course reader pgs. 55-68
June 12 Quiz #6
Read I Stand Here Ironing in Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I and Other Works
By Tillie Olsen
June 14 Essay #3 due
Read “On Being an Aging woman” in the course reader pg. 93-100
Read Tell Me A Riddle 57-74
June 19 Quiz #7
Read Tell Me A Riddle 57-98
June 21 Discussion of Women and Aging and essay assignment. Preparation for
Final

3. Tuesday, June 27: 145-3:45
Final
Final short essay due.