Unit name | Readings in Gender and Sexuality |
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Unit code | ENGL10053 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Harris |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of English |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit considers women writers in transhistorical context. The sequence of authors will be determined by the tutors, but it will necessarily take into account the cultural, historical, political and theoretical forces that affected women’s lives as authors, subjects and citizens in any given period. Students will also be encouraged to think about modes of publication and distribution that influenced the ways in which these texts were received in their own times. In its final weeks, the unit comes up to the contemporary moment and makes explicit links between the questions and issues raised in the previous weeks and women’s lives and work now, thereby urging students to think about the work of literary analysis in ways that are urgent and immediate.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Teaching will involve asynchronous and synchronous elements, including long- and short-form lectures, group discussion, research and writing activities, and peer dialogue. Students are expected to engage with the reading and participate fully with the weekly tasks and topics. Learning will be further supported through the opportunity for individual consultation.
Indicative list:
1 Emily Dickinson, selected poems
2 Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
3 Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
4 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
5 Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, 'Sultana's Dream' – and other short fiction
6 Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts