College/School
School of Liberal Arts
Course Description
This course explores works by women writers across genres, periods, and cultural contexts, with a focus on considering how gender, power, and identity shape literary production and the questions such works raise. Students will define, redefine, deconstruct, and reconstruct critical terms throughout the term. Through study of literature that may include fiction, poetry, and other genres, students will engage with feminist and intersectional theoretical frameworks to deepen their analysis of authorship, identity, and social change. We will consider as well how studying literature by women, and enacting critical inquiry into such literature, illuminates aspects of society, culture, and identity that affect and matter to people of all genders.
Grade Modes
Pass/Fail (P), Standard (S)
Course Attributes
Liberal Arts (LA), Self & Society (GESS), Writing Intensive (SEWI)