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

Note

Available as 116-330 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr Jill Anderson

Prerequisites

116-115 or 116-202, or equivalent.

Semester

2

Contact

One one-hour lecture and one two hour seminar per week

Subject Description

A 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 writers, social critics, and as objects of representation.

Assessment

One class paper (1500 words) subsequently written up, and class participation (25%), one essay of 2000 words (40%) and a final test of not more than two hours duration (35%).

Prescribed Texts

Selection of texts compiled by the Department including works by: George Sand, Colette, Marguerite Duras, Violette Leduc, and other contemporary writers.

  • Laubier C, The Condition of Women in France 1945 to the present. London, Routledge, 1990.
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