Last week while sitting in one of my English classes our professor asked us a question: "Has anyone read Marjory Kemp in a Women's Studies class?" When no one responded he just went on with the lesson. Why did he assume that someone would have had to be in a Womens Studies class to have read a female author?
I am an English major, and the majority of texts that I have read have been in my college career have been written by old white men. The only texts I have read by women have been in my Women in Literature class. So maybe my professor was right in asking that question. I think that literature written by females needs to be integrated into the English curriculum. I have taken classes like Modern American Literature, Advanced Poetry, and Nature Writing. These classes should include more literature written by women so that we as students can be exposed the many talented female authors of the past and of the modern era.
Yeah, that really is too bad. I could not name hardly any female authors, but I could men. And it's not that I haven't read works by female authors on my own time but I couldn't remember their names. That is probably saying something.
ReplyDeleteThat is so true and I have never really thought about it, but mostly any book I have read had been from a male author.
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