A Mini-Reader about Women
Time for some quick-read primary sources.
Have you ever read what Nathaniel Hawthorne had to say about Anne Hutchinson?
What about the transcript of Anne Hutchinson's Trial?
And "
Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou.
And then there's Margaret Atwood's
Bored. (Thanks to my intern, Michelle, for finding these).
And let's not forget Virginia Woolf's imaginative piece in A
Room of One's Own titled "
Shakespeare's Sister" in which she images life for the bard's sister if she shared his level of talent.
And finally, Sojourner Truth's lyric speech, "
Ain't I A Woman?" that reveals how class-blind we have been about the gender debate.
Who says we have to save these nuggets for Women's History month?