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Humanities and Social Science

Learning Methods

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Workshop

Module Offerings

6103ENGL-JAN-MTP

Aims

1. Extend students’ understanding of contemporary women’s fiction and its relationship to feminist theory, politics, and practice. 2. Equip students with an advanced understanding of the complexity and diversity of the history of feminism and feminist theory from the 1960s to the present day. 3. Enable students to critically interrogate the relationship between gender and genre through the study of contemporary women’s fiction.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:1 Second-Wave Feminism: Sexual Politics 2 Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) 3 Ain’t I a Woman? Feminism & Race 4 Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) 5 Theorising Gender & Sexuality: Feminism & Biology 6 Angela Carter, The Passion of the New Eve (1977) 7 Working Women: Feminism, Class, & Sex Work 8 Pat Barker, Blow Your House Down (1984) 9 Feminist Futures: Feminism, Utopia, & Dystopia 10 Margaret Atwood, Oryx & Crake (2004) 11 Postfeminism, Third-Wave Feminism & Feminist Historiography 12 Kate Walbert, A Short History of Women (2009)
Module Overview:
This module will extend your understanding of contemporary women's fiction and its relationship to feminist theory, politics, and practice. You will be equipped with an advanced understanding of the complexity and diversity of the history of feminism and feminist theory from the 1960s to the present day.
Additional Information:Feminist Fictions is third-year option module available to all single and joint-honours English students. It aims are to expand students understanding of contemporary feminist theory and politics, contemporary women’s fiction, and the relationship between them. In doing so, the module encourages students to explore the relationship between gender and genre, as well as to question definitions of women’s writing and feminist fiction. By tracing the history of women’s fiction and of feminist theory and practice since the 1960s, students will develop their understanding of the intersections between gender, sexuality, race, and class in particular, while analysing how women writers have treated those concerns in the realm of fiction. To do so, the module reading alternates between fiction and non-fiction, allowing students to explore the intersections between women’s feminist fiction and non-fiction.

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