The purpose of this class is to explore the early feminists and their works from both a historical and a rhetorical perspective.  We will learn about an obscured but important piece of history and will use early feminist texts to discuss rhetorical techniques and improve our own compositions. 

This is a writing-component class, and will entail a large number of writing assignments, both papers and short (~1-page) essays.  It is also a computer-assisted class, which means that we will frequently work on computers, and your final paper will be presented as a web page.

e-mail Melanie:  mel-u@mail.utexas.edu

last updated:  13 Jan 2002