Text Box: American Women Writers: Bad Girls Professor Arabella Lyon TTh 12:30 - 1:50 Reg. No. 337540 Text Box: 280 Text Box: This is a course in political activism and rhetoric. In this course, we are going to form theories about how language helps create both the identity of women and change in the larger society. To do this, we are going to read selections from four centuries of writings by American bad girls. We will begin with Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), a proponent of religious diversity and probably end with Eve Ensler whose play, The Vagina Monologues, is annually performed on over 800 colleges world-wide to raise money to stop violence against women. In between we must visit Margaret Fuller, the Grimke sisters, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Victoria Woodhull, Clara Barton, Liliuokalani, “Mother” Mary Jones, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far), “Jane,” Gloria Steinem . . . oh, there are so many, so much reading to do!! Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation, lots of reading, group work and group presentations, weekly response papers, and one 5-10 page final paper.