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| Femininities | |
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| Women as Art | |
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| "The Oval Portrait," Edgar Allen Poe, short story | |
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| "My Last Duchess," Robert Browning, poem | |
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| "A Musical Instrument," Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poem | |
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| "Their Last Visitor," Young-ha Kim, short story | |
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| Women as Artists | |
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| "Diving into the Wreck," Adrienne Rich, poem | |
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| "Sin Titulo," Lois Griffith, poem | |
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| "A Girl," Michael Field, poem | |
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| "Striving to be Selfish," Ruthann Robson, creative non-fiction | |
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| "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman, short story | |
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| The Body | |
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| Dryope, myth | |
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| "and all she ever wanted," Angela Costa, poem | |
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| "The End of Summer," Kimberly Gorall, creative non-fiction | |
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| Excerpt From Women Without Men, "Mahdokht," Shahrnush Parsipur, fiction | |
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| Women and Nature | |
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| Daphne, myth | |
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| "Sleeping Beauty," fairy tale | |
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| Girlhood | |
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| "Girl," Jamaica Kincaid, short story | |
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| "Hangin' Fire," Audre Lorde, poem | |
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| "The Changeling," Julia Ortiz Cofer, poem | |
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| Masculinities | |
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| Fatherhood | |
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| "Fathering," Bharati Mukherjee, short story | |
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| The Father, August Strindberg, play | |
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| "Son of Mr. Green Jeans," Dinty W. Moore, creative non-fiction | |
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| "My Son, My Executioner," Donald Hall, poem | |
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| "All I Know About My Father," Brett Rutherford, poem | |
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| Boyhood | |
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| "Bar Mitzvah in Naples" From Return to Naples, Robert Zweig, creative non-fiction | |
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| "Accident, June 1948," Seamus Deane, creative non-fiction | |
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| "Paul's Case," Willa Cather, short story | |
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| Male Identities | |
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| "Source of Comfort" From Triple Exposure: Black, Jewish, and Red in the 1950s | |
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| Dexter Jeffries, creative non-fiction | |
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| "Veterans' Dance," Jim Northrup, short story | |
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| "Metrosexuals: Male Vanity Steps Out of the Closet," Mark Simpson, essay | |
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| "How to Know You're a Metrosexual," Vanessa Raymond, essay | |
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| Sexualities | |
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| "Ode to Aphrodite," Sappho, poem | |
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| Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti, poem | |
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| Excerpt From Monique, Luisa Coelho, novella | |
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| "Gauguin's Stars (for Laura Nyro who loved Gauguin)," Angela Costa, poem | |
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| "The Company of Wolves," Angela Carter, short story | |
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| "Afternoon with Canals," Paul Lisicky, creative non-fiction | |
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| "The Women Who Hate Me," Dorothy Allison, poem | |
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| "Reunion," Xiaolu Guo, short story | |
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| "Mrs Rip Van Wrinkle," Carol Ann Duffy, poem | |
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| "Say It in Sanskrit," Ree Dragonette, poem | |
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| "Yellow Woman" Leslie M. Silko, short story | |
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| Ethnicities and Identities | |
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| Excerpt From "I Hear America Singing," Walt Whitman, poem | |
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| "I, Too, Sing America," Langston Hughes, poem | |
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| Just Fine Elizabeth Primamore, play | |
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| "As It Was in the Beginning," E. Pauline Johnson, short story | |
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| "Undertaker," Patricia Smith, poem | |
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| "Fear of Crossing Over," George Guida, poem | |
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| "Ain't I a Woman," Sojourner Truth, speech | |
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| "Sonnet Ghazal," Roger Sedarat, poem | |
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| "Heirloom" from Dream Homes, Joyce Zonana, creative non-fiction | |
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| Roles of Women and Men in Society | |
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| "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin, short story | |
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| "The Mother," Gwendolyn Brooks, poem | |
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| "The Mother," Anne Panning, creative non-fiction | |
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| "Black Mother Woman," Audre Lorde | |
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| "The Consultation," Barbara A. Holland, poem | |
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| "The Forsaken Merman," Matthew Arnold, poem | |
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| "Living in Sin," Adrienne Rich, poem | |
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| "And We All Stood Together," Merle Feld, creative non-fiction | |
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| And They Call It Puppy Love (A Trans-Species Farce), Angela Costa, play | |
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| "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps," Galway Kinnell, poem | |
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| "Clothes," Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, short story | |
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| Trifles, Susan Glaspell, play | |