Global Feminisms: Writing Gender and Sexuality

ENGL

348

Global Feminisms: Writing Gender and Sexuality

This course introduces students to historical and contemporary debates in feminism and gen-der/sexuality studies. Global Feminisms analyzes the production of gender and sexual difference articulated with race, ethnicity, class, religion, and nation within and across a variety of historical and cultural contexts and throughout diverse textual and multimedia examples. A guiding question of the course asks: what is the difference between gender and sexual identity? We will focus on how such differences reflect the shaping of social roles in Western and non-Western societies. Another focus includes the issue of “normative” constructions of gender and sexuality and how they shape and affect human behavior. This course uses a variety of literary, theoretical, and feministapproaches.

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Undergraduate

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