WOMEN IN FICTION AND HISTORY: NOTIONS OF THE FEMININE SINCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

Reading closely lyric, fictional, historical, and critical texts from Olympe de Gouges and Baudelaire to Rachilde and Irigaray, we will explore how women have been represented (and misrepresented) since the French Revolution, and how notions of the feminine since the 18th century still plague women’s place and power in the 21st. Taught in French.