106-417 Feminist Readings

Credit Points

Coordinator

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

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. Students will develop an understanding of current feminist retheorisations of such categories as class, culture, sexuality and gender, in the context of analysing structures of historical and cultural difference.

Assessment

Written work of not more than 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts

Course reader available from the department.

• J Butler, Bodies That Matter. Routledge.
• J Kristeva, About Chinese Women. Marion Boyars.
• G C Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine. Routledge.