Education
Throughout history women have not been given equal access to education compared to their male peers. The theme of education and the access to education is important to both the stories of the authors in our anthology as well as the stories they write. For example, as a class we have been able to discuss the theme of education through the historical figure Phillis Wheatley, who lived from 1753-1784 and was the first African American to publish a book in the United States. She is an example of a person who had the privilege of education but was also held down by the intersections of racism, patriarchal gender roles, and for part of her life, enslavement. In the case of Wheatley, we see both ways the theme of education relates. We can use the theme to understand the education she received and how that had an influence on her life and her work. However, we can also use this theme to look at the way "education" is present in her poems and how that influences their meanings. As discussed earlier, in this anthology, this theme of education will be based an authors access to education (like the case of Phillis Wheatley) or lack of access AND themes of education in which an author include in their text.
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- Themes Amy Lueck
