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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : French

116-230/330 En-Gendering Culture: Women and Representation in French Society

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr Jill Anderson

Prerequisite/s:

116-115 or 116-202, or equivalent.

Contact:

Three lectures/seminars a week.

Content:

A historical and critical analysis of the role of women in their relation to the production of creative and theoretical texts in French society. Examples include women as social critics, objects of representation, creative artists and critical theorists.

Assessment:

Written assessment not more than 5000 words: one seminar paper and class participation equivalent to not more than 1500 words (20 %); one essay (1500 words) (40 %); one two-hour test at the end of the semester (40 %).

Prescribed Texts:

Selection of texts compiled by the Department.

  • Cixous C et. al, La Venue à l'écriture, 10/18 1977.
  • de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, Gallimard 1949.
  • Duchen C, Women's Rights and Women's Lives in France 1944-1968, Routledge 1994.
  • Maclean M, The Name of Mother, Routledge 1994.
  • Sellers S, The Language of Sexual Difference, Macmillan 1991.
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