ENGL 217 - WOMEN AND GENDER IN LITERATURE

    Recent Professors
    Sally Demarest
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2026
    Class Size
    35 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    Prerequisites: ENGL C1000
    Spring 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2
    Description
    Presents a survey of literature by women of English-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, with an emphasis on comparing historically oppressed women writers (including African-American and lesbian writers) to those in the mainstream. Writers covered may include Phillis Wheatley, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Anne Sexton, Maya Angelou, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, and Gloria Anzaldua.
    Usually Held
    Tue Thu 12:00pm–1:20pm