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Teaching Jane Eyre as the Key Text of “Women and Literature” Course

&nbsp;&nbsp;“Women and Literature” course studies in what ways works of women writers transform women&quot;s experience and reorganize culture from women&quot;s point of view, reading five British and American female writers--Charlotte Bront？, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Susan Glaspell, and Doris Lessing. Teaching Charlotte Bront？&quot;s Jane Eyre as the key text of the course enables students not only to consider various problems women face in patriarchal society but also to learn various kinds of feminist approaches to the work. For it is not only a representative work in the tradition of women&quot;s literature but also the work on which various kinds of feminist criticism have developed their approaches.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Teaching Jane Eyre consists of ten important themes: women and speaking/writing; child Jane as a "rebel slave"; female relationship; "Anybody may blame me who likes"; women, work and governesses; Bertha Mason; critiques of postcolonial feminism; Charlotte Bront？ and Christianity; mutilating Rochester; and Jane Eyre as an autobiography. I suggest and discuss these themes not to limit the range of themes to be discussed in the class but as seeds with which students can develop their own analyses and enlarge ideas. Students are encouraged to read the texts as "resisting readers" against "universal" reading, and as women readers having similar experiences with women writers. But they are also encouraged to understand that there is no essential feminist reading of the texts by learning to compare and contrast different feminist approaches.