English 310 - SEM:WMN/GNDR/EUROPE:SELF-FASHN

Topics course. This comparative and interdisciplinary seminar focuses on writings by women in Italy, France, England and Spain, examining drama, narrative fiction, autobiography and political thought. How do the different genres of writing register their conceptions of the relationship between the sexes in the political and social order and envision the possibilities of crossing gender boundaries? In all cases we will be interested in exploring the historically specific workings of patriarchy in the different national cultures of early modern Europe. In studying the art of gendered self-fashioning across disciplinary boundaries, we consider works by early modern women painters as well as authors. By permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

Topic: Women & Gender in Early Modern Europe: The Art of Self-Fashioning. Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores