Gender, Literature and Culture

Three credits · Undergraduate

What makes gender meaningful and what has literature got to do with it? How do literary works and other cultural texts (film, television, music, social media) represent and / or transform gender in a given time and place? What can such works tell us about how gender is imagined, experienced, circulated, challenged? This course will address these questions by studying selected texts in the context of historically specific understandings of masculinity, femininity and non-binary identities. Cross-listed as WMGS 259. Prerequisite: ENGL 100 or 111 or equivalent. Three credits.