Great Women in Literature

Study Women's Role in Literature using Online Video

With this title, you'll follow the changing roles of women in literature, from the early eighteenth century to the women's movement of the 1960s. Use our 2 online educational video titles to follow the changing roles of women in literature, from the early 18th Century to the women's movement of the 1960s, a period when women made their mark as writers. Discover how women novelists, playwrights, and poets portrayed female characters. Survey the social impact of women in literature, from Jane Eyre...to the feminist writers of the 1960s--including Betty Friedan, Doris Lessing, and Kate Millet--who depicted the struggle of women seeking to define their inner selves and their roles in society.

Learning Objectives:

• Survey the course of women in literature from the early eighteenth century to the 1960s, when the women's liberation movement transformed American society.
• Learn how influential women authors have portrayed their own gender, attempting to define woman's role in society within their own literary works.
• Explore the development of a new and empowering image of woman's role in society as revealed through female literary characters and social commentary by contemporary women writers.
• Establish relationships between the choices available to women in a society, and the changing role of marriage in women's lives, and the historic context in which different literary works were written.

• Literature > Women In Literature > Novelists Playwrights Poets
• Woman Saint or Sinner Part 2 (Runtime: 19:39)
• Changing Images of Today (Runtime: 19:32)