Women's literature course

When we talk about women's voices, we are talking about women's literature. But the term, "Women's literature"  raises some interesting questions. Many women writers declare that they are writers and sex is an accident. They deal with problems related to women. Some times they criticise the injustice done to women by men. They attack male ego and male domination.

 It is possible to differentiate women's literature from literature produced by women. Women may write, and have written successfully as per the norms prescribed by men. But such works may not automatically  qualify as women's literature. Women's literature must have a strong flavour of its own and it must have universal appeal. It seeks to include women's experience which has been ignored. This experience is universally valid.

A new literature such as women's literature is a evolving an open literature receiving new ideas and images. This literature cut across national, racial, cultural, political boundaries.