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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Writing Women: Feminism, Freud, and Literary Inscriptions of Femininity

Course Information

Subject: Gender Studies (GS), Comparative Literature (CL)
Number: 363
Language of Instruction: English

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 45 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits

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Summary

Studies novels, memoirs, poems, and essays by 20th century writers as evidence of the complex relationship between gender and literary vocation, between sexuality and writing. Read selections from Freud, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and Marguerite Duras against a backdrop of feminist theory, genre criticism, gender politics, and 20th century literary criticism.

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Studies novels, memoirs, poems, and essays by 20th century writers as evidence of the complex relationship between gender and literary vocation, between sexuality and writing. Read selections from Freud, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and Marguerite Duras against a backdrop of feminist theory, genre criticism, gender politics, and 20th century literary criticism.