Course Description
Study of topics and approaches in feminist criticism.
Athena Title
FEM THEORY CRIT
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course will explore major questions of gender as they are related to literary study. The course will make it possible for graduate students to read with understanding and to consider questions of reader as writer and as reader, of woman as object and subject, of the ideological construction of gender.
Topical Outline
The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary. The focus and coverage will vary from semester to semester and instructor to instructor, but topics of examination will include: - What is Woman? - American Feminism: Feminist Critique to Gynocriticism - French Feminisms - Semiotics and Feminism - Psychoanalysis and Feminism - Marxism and Feminism - Black/Women of Color Feminism