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This course offerse varying approaches to the role of women in literature and literary history. Sample topics: the depiction of women's experience; sexual attitudes in the analysis and appreciation of literature; women writers. (Distribution Reqs:Humanities)

This course investigates literature about women involved in various suffrage and women’s rights movements, from the nineteenth century to present day. We will be focusing on the many forms that feminism has taken in the last century and a half, and how it is written about, by women pursuing equal rights and by people critical of the various feminist movements. We will investigate the New Woman, suffragettes, women’s libbers, riot grrrrls, and media mavens, or, as the academy likes to name them, the First, Second, Third and Fourth Waves of feminism. Along the way, we will discuss the goals of feminism as outlined by these mostly contemporary writers, and we will investigate whether or not those goals have been met.General Education Distribution and Learning Goals:This course fulfills the Humanities distribution requirement for General Education. In exams, written work, and classroom discussions, students will demonstrate their knowledge of assigned texts, their historical contexts, and their stylistic features. Students will develop their own ideas when writing about the primary texts and make convincing arguments, using textual evidence, both primary and secondary, for those ideas. Students will learn correct citation techniques and employ them for the texts covered in the course, and will produce properly formatted and cited essays.

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