These are the primary texts we’ll be studying this term. A list of books to buy for this course can be found at the bottom of the document.
Primary texts
Novels and graphic novels
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (2006)
- Helen Oyeyemi, Mr Fox (2011)
Short stories
- Edith Wharton, ‘Autres Temps…’ (1911) (available as PDF)
- Joyce Carol Oates, ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ (1966) (available as PDF)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’ (2009) (available as PDF)
Secondary texts
- Mary Eagleton (ed.), A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory (2003)
- Other secondary reading will be made available as PDFs on Fronter.
What to buy:
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (2006)
- Helen Oyeyemi, Mr Fox (2011)
- Mary Eagleton (ed.), A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory (2003)