CWL 450

Fall 2011 All Classes

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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 fall 2011
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46567	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	313 Gregory Hall	Hilger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/11-12/07/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Same as GWS 450 and meets with ENGL 461. Topic: Gender Benders - This course examines literary texts and other cultural documents (biographies, opera, films) from the seventeenth 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 texts. In addition to the primary literature, we will 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. Texts Catalina de Erauso, Memoirs of a Basque Lieutenant Nun: Transvestite in the New World Choisy, L'H?ritier and Perrault, The Story of the Marquis/Marquise de Banneville Farinelli: Il Castrato (Movie) Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl Deirdre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir