ENGL 281

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Women in the Lit Imagination

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Credit: 3 hours.

Study of the way various writers, both male and female, have portrayed woman's image, social role, and psychologies in British, American, or Anglophone literature.

Same as GWS 281. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 281 class schedule data for spring 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32109	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	125 English Building	Gray, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Section Title: Women in Public Culture Section Info: Topic Section S: Women in Public Culture This course will focus in particular on the issue of women’s access to and participation in the public culture that—through old and new forms, genres, and media—continues to shape women’s self-presentations and representations. Starting with Queen Elizabeth I and ending with Hilary Clinton, however, we will do so by coupling two very different periods of literary history in two countries. This will help us to think, inter-historically, about the continuities and divergences in the production and circulation of “images of women” in the cultural and literary imagination, as well as the multiple methodologies we can bring to such a topic. We will begin in Renaissance England by approaching gender from a historicist angle: what were the particular contours of gender hierarchy at this moment? How might iterations of patriarchy and its subversion or rejection be historically specific? In what ways are gender norms yoked to broader and historically-determined socio-political structures and assumptions about sexual identity, marriage, and the reproduction and dissemination of state power? In the second half of the course we will change tack, using feminist and queer theory in particular to add new questions as we consider recent, twentieth- and twenty-first American texts and public culture. We will ask to what extent can gender be considered a performance and what are the implications of doing so? How might theories of racial difference, sexuality, and transgender identity complicate, even undo, any sense of a stable or unified category of “woman”? To what extent and how does gender remain a useful category of analysis, politically or culturally, in our present moment?