WITCHES: THE MONSTROUS FEMININE

Catalog description

This course counterbalances student inquiry with lectures and materials at once grounded in women's and gender/sexuality studies and reliant on a range of interdisciplinary sources. The course centers two key touchstones: witch and monstrous feminine. Course trajectories traverse history, culture, religion, politics and academic and popular renderings to locate keys: hunts, trials, dynamics of allegation, guilt and innocence. The course aims to 'correct' traditions of objectification and typecasting by interrogating real subjectivities and the dimensionality of feminine, monstrous and witch.