Gender Studies 333EF - Women Writers: Early Feminisms

This course examines a variety of "literary";expressions of women in Early Modern Spain and;Colonial Latin America (e.g. Teresa de Avila,;Catalina de Erauso, María de Zayas and sor;Juana Inés de la Cruz). Attention will be;paid to the formal means by which women writers;emulated, appropriated, or subverted;male-authored models, and how with her words and;actions, they challenged modes of thinking and;threatened patriarchal ideologies. A significant;part of the class will deal with the ways in;which contemporary feminist theories can be used;to complement, interpret, and flesh out ideas;expressed by these women in the past.

Prereq: Two 200-level Spanish courses above SPAN-212.