Books:
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905)
- A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf (1929)
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
- July’s People, Nadine Gordimer (1981)
- Daughters of the North, Sarah Hall (2007)
- The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai (2007)
Articles and excerpts (compendium):
- “The Rise of Feminine Authority in the Novel,” Nancy Armstrong (1982)
- Excerpt from The Second Sex (pp.61-81), Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
- Excerpt from Women, Race and Class (Chapter 2), Angela Y. Davis (1981)
- “Ecofeminism or Death,” Ophelia Selam (2006)
- “Writing Home/ Decolonizing Texts,” Nina Asher (2009)
Note for MA-level students: You will have additional texts assigned, in consultation with the instructor.