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The Muse as Medusa
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| Notes toward a Politics of Location |
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In Search of our Mothers' Gardens
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| Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power |
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| For My Lover, Returning to His Wife |
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Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location
Categories a person is identified: their sex, where they're from, their past, religion, beliefs, their story
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| Vocab: Androgynous/ Woman-Manly |
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Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
Must not write as a man or woman but with a mind that uses both and has no prejudice towards another to write at your full potential. She says shakespeare does this well. |
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| Free of emotions when writing, must write "in the white light of the truth" |
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Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
Shakespeare's hypothetical sister that has the same gift as him but because she is a woman she is not aloud to write and the result of her holding in the temptation to makes her commit suicide. |
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| Vocab: L'ecriture Feminie |
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Helene Cixous: The Laugh of the Medusa
Means feminine writing |
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| In the Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous who created the greatest crime against woman? |
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| In the Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous she says this is a taboo of society for woman. |
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| The Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous |
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| In the Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous what is the womans gesture she refers too? |
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In the Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous
Is the idea that men have corrupted woman into thinking that they are the authoritative figure. |
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| This writing relates to Virgina Woolf's in A Room of One's Own but says she fails to mention African-American Women. |
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| Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mother's Gardens |
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| There is an adopted child named Shirley-T in this writing who doesn't speak much. |
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| Eudora Welty - Why I live at the P.O. |
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| What does Virginia Woolf state that you must have to be able to write. |
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| Money & a room of ones own |
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Virgina Woolf- A Room of One's Own
The security guard that made her get off the grass and interrupted her train of thought. Shows male authority in this time. |
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| Who does Virginia Woolf state as just as important as male writers in A Room of One's Own? |
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| "I wrote a sentence and x'd it out" |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes toward a Politics of Location |
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| "Arrogance of believing yourselves at the center" |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes Towards a politics of location |
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| "We who are not the same" |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes Towards a politics of location |
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| "self-enclosed, and ravaged" |
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| May Sarton - The Muse as Medusa |
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| "Women must write herself" |
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| Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa |
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| Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa |
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| "Women must write from the body" |
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| Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa |
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| "Unequivocally that there is such a thing as marked writing" |
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| Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa |
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| Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa |
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| "Impossible to define a feminine practice of writing" |
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| Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa |
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| "Write! and your self-seeking text will know" |
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| Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa |
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| Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power |
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| "erotic functions for me in several ways" |
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| Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power |
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| Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own |
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| Katherine Mansfield - The Doll's House |
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| "in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness" |
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| Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power |
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| "Let's face it, I have been momentary. A luxury" |
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| Anne Sexton - For My Lover Returning to His Wife |
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| "Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation" |
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| Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own |
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| The reading that repeats itself a lot |
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| Gertrude Stein - from Patriarchal Poetry |
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| Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mother's Gardens |
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| "When I am happy I live and despise writing" |
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| "With my stead hands, calling him my blue Lizard" |
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| Medbh McGuckian -From the Dressing-Room |
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| "But here I am, and here I'll stay. I want the world to know I'm hap |
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| Eudora Welty - Why I live at the P.O |
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| "We who are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same" |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location |
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My Muse sits forlorn
she wishes she had not been born |
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| I turn your face around! It is my face. |
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| May Sarton - The Muse as Mudsa |
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I cam naked as any little fish,
prepared to be hooked, gutted, caught; |
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| May Sarton - The Muse as Mudsa |
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Now I am older and wiser,
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as one is glad of the light. |
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When I was young,
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Left to itself, the say, every fetus
Would turn female, starving in, nature
Siding then with the enemy that
Delicately mixes up genders |
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| Mebdh McGuckian - From the Dressing-Room |
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| This writing begins with the author talking about "we" but then she questions who is "we" ? |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes Towards a Politics of Location |
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| "Theory-the seeing of patterns showing the forest as wells as the trees-theory can be a dew that rises from the earth." |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location |
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| "If we have learned anything in these years of late twentieth-century feminism, it's that that "always" blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true." |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location |
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| "We who are many are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same." |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location |
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| "Across the curve of the earth, there are woman getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before the sun rises..." |
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| Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location |
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| Vocab: Institutionalized Sexism |
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| Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own |
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| "But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom-all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning." |
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| Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own |
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| "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." |
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| Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own |
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| "Day which is what is which is what is day which what is fay which is which is what is which is what is day" |
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| Gertrude Stein - from Patriarchal Poetry |
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| "Stella-Rondo got furious! She said, 'Sister, I don't need to tell you you got a lot of nerve and always did have and I'll thank you to make no future reference to my adopted child whatsoever' " |
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| Eudora Welty - Why I Live at the P.O. |
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| "Who were these Saints? These crazy looney, pitful women" |
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| Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
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| "To be an artist and a black woman, even today, lowers our status in many respects, rather than raises it: and yet, artists we will be." |
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| Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
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