ENGL 1110 - Female Self-Advocacy in 18th Century Novels: Evaluating Sources for Evidence of Self-Advocacy

Prompt: Scholars may not necessarily use the phrases "self-advocacy" or "social justice" when writing about issues of gender and equality in the long eighteenth century.  Working in groups, discuss one of the following sources to determine whether it is related to female self-advocacy, and whether it might be a valid/authoritative resource that could be used for a student's poster presentation.

• What evidence of self-advocacy do you find in the article?

Group 1:

• “Rape and the Female Subject in Aphra Behn's The Rover”

  • Discuss at least the 1st paragraph.

Group 2:

• Strictly Business:  Marriage, Motherhood, and Surrogate Families as Entrepreneurial Ventures in Moll Flanders

  • Discuss the first 2-3 paragraphs.

Group 3:

• “Mary Davys's Novel Contribution to Women and Realism”

  • Discuss the abstract and use the Find command to search for discussions of The Fugitive.