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<SUBJECT ID="106-263" CODEUSED="106-263/363">
<TITLE>FEMINIST FICTIONS</TITLE>
<POINTS>16.7 2nd and 3rd year
<COORDINATOR>Marion Campbell and Annamarie Jagose.
<SEMESTER>First semester
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully will:
<ul>
<li>be familiar with the forms and subject matter of some popular literary genres (romance, crime, fantasy and science fiction);
<li>understand the ways these genres are used in contemporary feminist writing;
<li>be familiar with some key concepts of feminist literary theory;
<li>be able to discuss the intersections between feminist writing and feminist politics, and understand the conceptual issues and problems involved.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject studies feminist uses of popular genres such as romance, crime, fantasy and science fiction, focusing on the politics of generic appropriation and literary experimentation.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Atwood M <i>Lady Oracle</i> Virago
<ATEXT>Atwood M <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> Virago
<ATEXT>Butler O <i>Dawn</i> Warner
<ATEXT>Butler O <i>Kindred</i> Beacon
<ATEXT>Carter A <i>Nights at the Circus </i>Chatto &amp; Windus
<ATEXT>Carter A <i>Wise Children</i> Faber
<ATEXT>Cornwall P <i>Postmortem </i>Warner
<ATEXT>Dick L <i>Without Falling</i> Serpent's Tail
<ATEXT>Fallon M <i>Working Hot </i>Sybylla
<ATEXT>McKemmish J <i>A Gap in the Records</i> Sybylla
<ATEXT>McKemmish J <i>Only Lawyers Dancing</i> A &amp; R. Moorhead F <i>Still Murder </i>Penguin
<ATEXT>Paretsky S <i>Tunnel Vision</i> Penguin
<ATEXT>Weldon F <i>The Life and Loves of a She Devil </i>Hodder &amp; Stoughton
<ATEXT>Wilson B <i>The Dog Collar Murder</i>s Virago
<ATEXT>Winterson J <i>Sexing the Cherry</i> Vintage
<ATEXT>Winterson J <i>Written on the Body</i> Jonathan Cape
<ATEXT>Wittig M <i>The Lesbian Body</i> Beacon
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
</SUBJECT>
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<XREF TABLE="English:Ed-P::v5.100">
<SUBJECT ID="106-263" CODEUSED="106-263/363">
<TITLE>FEMINIST FICTIONS</TITLE>
<POINTS>16.7
<COORDINATOR>Marion Campbell and Annamarie Jagose.
<SEMESTER>First semester.
<CONTACT>One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject successfully will:
<ul>
<li>be familiar with the forms and subject matter of some popular literary genres (romance, crime, fantasy and science fiction);
<li>understand the ways these genres are used in contemporary feminist writing;
<li>be familiar with some key concepts of feminist literary theory; and
<li>be able to discuss the intersections between feminist writing and feminist politics, and understand the conceptual issues and problems involved.
</ul>
<CONTENT>This subject studies feminist uses of popular genres such as romance, crime, fantasy and science fiction, focusing on the politics of generic appropriation and literary experimentation.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Atwood M <i>Lady Oracle </i>Virago
<ATEXT>Atwood M <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> Virago
<ATEXT>Butler O <i>Dawn </i>Warner
<ATEXT>Butler O <i>Kindred</i> Beacon
<ATEXT>Carter A <i>Nights at the Circus</i> Chatto &amp; Windus
<ATEXT>Carter A <i>Wise Children</i> Faber
<ATEXT>Cornwall P <i>Postmortem</i> Warner
<ATEXT>Dick L <i>Without Falling</i> Serpent's Tail
<ATEXT>Fallon M <i>Working Hot </i>Sybylla
<ATEXT>McKemmish J <i>A Gap in the Records</i> Sybylla
<ATEXT>McKemmish J <i>Only Lawyers Dancing</i> A &amp; R. Moorhead F <i>Still Murder</i> Penguin
<ATEXT>Paretsky S <i>Tunnel Vision</i> Penguin
<ATEXT>Weldon F <i>The Life and Loves of a She Devil</i> Hodder &amp; Stoughton
<ATEXT>Wilson B <i>The Dog Collar Murders</i> Virago
<ATEXT>Winterson J <i>Sexing the Cherry Vintage. </i> Winterson J <i>Written on the Body Jonathan Cape. </i> Wittig M The Lesbian Body Beacon
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
</SUBJECT>
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