This course will consider literary works written by women as occasions where women acknowledge and confront both each other and a literary culture which has traditionally defined feminine identity and excluded female voices. While including a wide range of women, the course may study in greater depth such writers as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, and Audre Lorde. Requirements: one 4- to 5-page essay, one 6- to 8-page essay, midterm, and a final exam. Prerequisite: a 100-level English course, except 150. Enrollment limited to 40.