GER 576

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Open Seminar in German Studies

Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar in literary phenomena (such as movements, genres and forms, relations, themes and types, interdisciplinary studies, women's studies) that go beyond the confines of a particular century.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: GER 510.

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GER 576 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	57117	Lecture-Discussion	SH	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	Davenport Hall	Hilger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Gendered Bodies in Literature and Medicine.This seminar explores the representation of the gendered body from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, in a European and North American context. The focus will be on non-normative bodies that disrupt a binary conception of gender. We will investigate the ways in which literary and medical discourses depict and often pathologize such bodies. In this context, we will also discuss intersections between literature and medicine, two disciplines that are typically considered to be totally separate in their methods and concerns. The readings will consist of literary texts, scholarship from the field of gender studies, activist writing, and medical research. Literary texts: Charles d?Eon, The Maiden of Tonnerre N.O. Body, Memoirs of a Man?s Maiden Years Thomas Mann, Death in Venice Sigmund Freud, selected case studies Foucault, ed., Herculine Barbin Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl. Scholarship/Activist/Medical Writings: Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology Alice Dreger, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex Elisabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body