Women's literature has often been defined by publishers as a category of writing done by women.
The tradition of women writing has been much ignored due to the inferior position women have held in male-dominated societies. It is still not unheard of to see literature classes or anthologies in which women are greatly outnumbered by male writers or even entirely absent. The onus of women's literature, then, is to categorize and create an area of study for a group of people marginalized by history and to explore through their writing their lives as they were while occupying such a unique sociopolitical space within their culture.
The course is introduced to create a new awareness among students concerning gender. Students can familiarise with some theoretical writings which guide the current political and literary knowledge in this field along with the creative writings of various genres by women.
- Teacher: ANN MARY JOJU