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106-417 Feminist Readings

Year 4 English.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Marion Campbell.

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have acquired an understanding of some contemporary materialist, psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory in a feminist context;
• will be familiar with current feminist debates about such categories as class, culture, sexuality and gender;
• will have developed their own feminist readings of a range of theoretical, fictional and cultural texts.

Content:

This subject examines current debates within feminist theory, with particular emphasis on the impact of recent developments in materialist, psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory on feminist literary criticism and women's writing.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Butler J Bodies that Matter Routledge
• Haraway D Simians, Cyborgs and Women FAB
• Kristeva J About Chinese Women Marion Boyars
• Landry D and MacLean G Materialist Feminisms Blackwell
• Mohanty C Russo A and Torres L eds Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism Indiana UP
• Spivak G C Outside in the Teaching Machine Routledge
• Course reader available from the department

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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