WMST 218 - Literature, Gender, and Sexuality

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as AFRS 218 and ENGL 218) This course considers matters of gender and sexuality in literary texts, criticism, and theory. The focus varies from year to year, and may include study of a historical period, literary movement, or genre; constructions of masculinity and femininity; sexual identities; or representations of gender in relation to race and class.

Topic for 2016/17b: Black Feminism. From the Combahee River Collective to Beyonce as feminist figure, this course pushes you to consider the ways in which black American women have historically and contemporaneously negotiated the intersections between race, class, gender, and sexuality in order to formulate their own feminist theory and praxis. Eve Dunbar.

Two 75-minute periods.