By Joy Lynn Clark (This response to the reading was part of an assignment in Latin American women writers class taught by Professor Christian Roa at The University of Illinois at Chicago) Virginia Woolf is a poet and author. Woolf  is  a predecessor to Jane Austen.  Virginia Woolf was one of the first women to have tenure at a University.  Unfortunately, she was not allowed to enter the library or sit on the grass.  A Room of One’s Own was about what she has to live with and what she wants to achieve as a writer. Because this paper was meant to be a quick response to the reading, I…

By Joy Lynn Clark 10/30/2017 When I was in college, I took a Latin American Women Writers course.  As I have mentioned in past posts, I got heated.  In so many ways I could identify with these writers.  I am going to give my Latin Studies professor a break (lol) and publish some of these papers.  This particular paper was my response to, “Rapture Encaged, The Supression of the Feminine in Western Culture” (Routledge, London and New York) by Ruth Anthony El Saffar. The other reading was, “International Feminisms: Latin American Alternatives” (Blackwell Publishers Ltd.)  by Asuncion Lavrin. 10/30/2017  After reading the two histories by Lavrin and El Saffar I immediately notice that sex…