GWS 450

Spring 2011

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Topics in Bodies and Genders
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as CWL 450. See CWL 450.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
44868
Lecture-Discussion
A
12:30PM -1:50PM
TR
Foreign Languages Building
Hilger, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Section Info:
Same as CWL 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
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