Gender Studies 204SW - Sexuality and Women's Writing

Fall
2015
01
4.00
Elizabeth Young
MW 01:15PM-02:30PM
Mount Holyoke College
93584
Clapp Laboratory 225
eyoung@mtholyoke.edu
93549,93584
An examination of how U.S. women writers in the twentieth and twenty-first century represent sexuality in prose. Topics to include: lesbian, queer, homoerotic, and transgender possibilities; literary strategies for encoding sexuality, including modernist experiment and uses of genre; thematic interdependencies between sexuality and race; historical contexts, including the 'inversion' model of homosexuality and the Stonewall rebellion. Authors studied may include Barnes, Bechdel, Cather, Chopin, Feinberg, Highsmith, Jackson, Larsen, McCullers, Moraga, Nestle, Stein, and Truong; supplemental critical readings may include Butler, Lorde, Rich, and Sedgwick.
Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.