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ENGL 345
Midterm 1
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English
Undergraduate 3
01/26/2012

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Virgina Woolf
Definition
A Room of Ones Own
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Stevie Smith
Definition
My Muse
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May Sarton
Definition
The Muse as Medusa
&
Of the Muse
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Medbh McGuckian
Definition
From the Dressing-Room
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Adrienne Rich
Definition
Notes toward a Politics of Location
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Gertrude Stein
Definition
from Patriarchal Poetry
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Eudora Welty
Definition
Why I Live at the P.O.
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Alice Walker
Definition
In Search of our Mothers' Gardens
&
Everyday Use
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Helene Cixous
Definition
The Laugh of the Medusa
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Audre Lorde
Definition
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
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Dionne Brand
Definition
Madame Alaird's Breasts
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Katherine Mansfield
Definition
The Doll's House
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Anne Sexton
Definition
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
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Sharon Olds
Definition
The Girl
&
Sex Without Love
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Vocab: Location
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location

Categories a person is identified: their sex, where they're from, their past, religion, beliefs, their story

Ex. Rich's location is a woman, lesbian, marxist, jewish, american, feminist, white, mother, etc.
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Vocab: Androgynous/ Woman-Manly
Definition
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

Must not write as a man or woman but with a mind that uses both and has no prejudice towards another to write at your full potential. She says shakespeare does this well.
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Incandescence
Definition
Free of emotions when writing, must write "in the white light of the truth"
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Judith Shakespeare
Definition
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

Shakespeare's hypothetical sister that has the same gift as him but because she is a woman she is not aloud to write and the result of her holding in the temptation to makes her commit suicide.
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Vocab: L'ecriture Feminie
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Helene Cixous: The Laugh of the Medusa

Means feminine writing
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In the Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous who created the greatest crime against woman?
Definition
Men
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In the Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous she says this is a taboo of society for woman.
Definition
Being pregnant
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"Women must write"
Definition
The Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous
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In the Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous what is the womans gesture she refers too?
Definition
Flying
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Vocab: Phallogocentrism
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In the Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous

Is the idea that men have corrupted woman into thinking that they are the authoritative figure.
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This writing relates to Virgina Woolf's in A Room of One's Own but says she fails to mention African-American Women.
Definition
Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
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There is an adopted child named Shirley-T in this writing who doesn't speak much.
Definition
Eudora Welty - Why I live at the P.O.
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What does Virginia Woolf state that you must have to be able to write.
Definition
Money & a room of ones own
Term
Beadle
Definition
Virgina Woolf- A Room of One's Own

The security guard that made her get off the grass and interrupted her train of thought. Shows male authority in this time.
Term
Who does Virginia Woolf state as just as important as male writers in A Room of One's Own?
Definition
Jane Austin
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"I wrote a sentence and x'd it out"
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes toward a Politics of Location
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"Arrogance of believing yourselves at the center"
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes Towards a politics of location
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"We who are not the same"
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes Towards a politics of location
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"self-enclosed, and ravaged"
Definition
May Sarton - The Muse as Medusa
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"Women must write herself"
Definition
Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa
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Vocab: Dark Continent
Definition
Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa
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"Women must write from the body"
Definition
Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa
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"Unequivocally that there is such a thing as marked writing"
Definition
Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa
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Vocab:Locust
Definition
Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa
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"Impossible to define a feminine practice of writing"
Definition
Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa
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"Write! and your self-seeking text will know"
Definition
Helene Cixous - The laugh of Medusa
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Vocab: Eros
Definition
Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power
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"erotic functions for me in several ways"
Definition
Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power
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Cloe Liked Olivia
Definition
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
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Vocab:Lamp
Definition
Katherine Mansfield - The Doll's House
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"in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness"
Definition
Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power
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"Let's face it, I have been momentary. A luxury"
Definition
Anne Sexton - For My Lover Returning to His Wife
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"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation"
Definition
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
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The reading that repeats itself a lot
Definition
Gertrude Stein - from Patriarchal Poetry
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"the mule of the world"
Definition
Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
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"When I am happy I live and despise writing"
Definition
Stevie Smith - My Muse
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"With my stead hands, calling him my blue Lizard"
Definition
Medbh McGuckian -From the Dressing-Room
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"But here I am, and here I'll stay. I want the world to know I'm hap
Definition
Eudora Welty - Why I live at the P.O
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"We who are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same"
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location
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My Muse sits forlorn
she wishes she had not been born
Definition
Stevie Smith - My Muse
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I turn your face around! It is my face.
Definition
May Sarton - The Muse as Mudsa
Term
I cam naked as any little fish,
prepared to be hooked, gutted, caught;
Definition
May Sarton - The Muse as Mudsa
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Now I am older and wiser,
I can be glad of her
as one is glad of the light.
Definition
May Sarton - Of the Muse
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When I was young,
I misunderstood
The Muse.
Definition
May Sarton - Of the Muse
Term
Left to itself, the say, every fetus
Would turn female, starving in, nature
Siding then with the enemy that
Delicately mixes up genders
Definition
Mebdh McGuckian - From the Dressing-Room
Term
This writing begins with the author talking about "we" but then she questions who is "we" ?
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes Towards a Politics of Location
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"Theory-the seeing of patterns showing the forest as wells as the trees-theory can be a dew that rises from the earth."
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location
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"If we have learned anything in these years of late twentieth-century feminism, it's that that "always" blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true."
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location
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"We who are many are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same."
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location
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"Across the curve of the earth, there are woman getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before the sun rises..."
Definition
Adrienne Rich - Notes towards a Politics of Location
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Vocab: Institutionalized Sexism
Definition
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
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"But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom-all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning."
Definition
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
Definition
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
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"Day which is what is which is what is day which what is fay which is which is what is which is what is day"
Definition
Gertrude Stein - from Patriarchal Poetry
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"Stella-Rondo got furious! She said, 'Sister, I don't need to tell you you got a lot of nerve and always did have and I'll thank you to make no future reference to my adopted child whatsoever' "
Definition
Eudora Welty - Why I Live at the P.O.
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"Who were these Saints? These crazy looney, pitful women"
Definition
Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
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"To be an artist and a black woman, even today, lowers our status in many respects, rather than raises it: and yet, artists we will be."
Definition
Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
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