Gender and Literature

Catalog description

This course examines the intersections among sex, gender, and culture, as represented in literature. A range of critical frameworks -- LGBTQ studies, feminisms, and masculinity studies -- will be used to engage with questions of how literature represents, constructs, reinforces, and interrogates understandings of sex, sexual orientation, and gender. Students will read literary works of underrepresented authors from a variety of world cultures and within specific national and historical contexts. This course is also required for the Gender Studies Minor.