CWL 450

Spring 2010 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 19-May 5

Topics in Bodies and Genders

Credit: 3 hours.

How do gender, sexuality, and the body emerge through cultural representations and across artistic forms? How do literature, film, and the visual arts construct gender identities in various times and places? Topics and regions vary by semester and instructor. All readings in English.

Same as GWS 450. May be repeated up to 6 hours maximum. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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CWL 450 class schedule data for spring 2010
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43653	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -2:20PM	TR	Foreign Languages Building	Hilger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Gender Benders This course examines literary texts and other cultural documents (biographies, opera, films) from the Antiquity to the twenty-first century, which all question the gender roles of their time through a representation of characters with unstable, ambivalent, or ambiguous gender identities. We will pay special attention to social and historical contexts and try to understand the function of transvestites, hermaphrodites, castrati and other gender benders in these documents. We will also read selections from Thomas Laqueur�s Making Sex and Londa Schiebinger�s The Mind Has No Sex? To help us understand how biology and science are used to construct and justify gender identity at various historical moments. This course therefore has particular relevance to current debates about gender and sexual identity, marriage, reproductive rights, etc.