Senior 300-level course germane to the sequence I. Program Courses 130a. Includes contemporary and historical experiences of women in private and public spaces. Examination of how the concept of woman has been constructed in literature, science, the media and other institutions, with attention to the way the construction intersects with nationality, race, class and sexuality. An introduction to issues in feminism with a focus on the body, the representation of the body, and textuality. Possible issues may include reproductive rights, pornography, anorexia, prostitution, women in popular cultures and the female voice.
Specific attention is paid to the intersections of race, class, and gender.
Open only to Freshmen. Two 75-minute sessions. An interdisciplinary introduction to women in European culture twelfth through sixteenth centuries. Close scrutiny of primary sources including major literary texts. Some consideration of historiographical and theoretical issues.