Alexandra Curth
AWP Seminar: Breaking Silences: Women’s Memoir as an Act of Rebellion.
Janice Gary, Kate Hopper, Anna March, Connie May Fowler, Rosemary Daniell
Tillie Olsen wrote: “Why are so many more women silenced than men? Why, when women do write (one out of four or five works published) is so little of their writing known, taught, accorded recognition?” The women on the panel asked questions of why, when women write about the full experience of being female in this culture are our stories seen as less worthy of literary merit than those of male counterparts.
Michael Foucault proposed a new theory of power that claimed, “power is everywhere.” In effect, power normalizes people’s actions within society. In the History of Sexuality,
AWP Seminar: Breaking Silences: Women’s Memoir as an Act of Rebellion.
Janice Gary, Kate Hopper, Anna March, Connie May Fowler, Rosemary Daniell
Tillie Olsen wrote: “Why are so many more women silenced than men? Why, when women do write (one out of four or five works published) is so little of their writing known, taught, accorded recognition?” The women on the panel asked questions of why, when women write about the full experience of being female in this culture are our stories seen as less worthy of literary merit than those of male counterparts.
Michael Foucault proposed a new theory of power that claimed, “power is everywhere.” In effect, power normalizes people’s actions within society. In the History of Sexuality,