ENGL 44121 - Reading Gender & Sexuality

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

ENG 30480 Reading Gender and Sexuality at UCD; In this module, we will explore the ways in which gender and sexuality, the body and desire, have been constructed in the West from the late 19th century up to the present. We will closely read key theoretical texts that articulate concepts of gender and sexuality in sexology, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, queer theory, and other theories of subjectivity. We will then explore how a diverse range of literary and visual texts can be read and analysed in light of these theoretical paradigms and concepts. We will consider the ways in which understandings of gender and sexuality change across cultures and historical periods, and what such differences might tell us about the ways in which gender and sexuality, bodies and identities, are constituted in history and culture. We will think about the relation between cultural representation, social change, and identity, to interrogate to what extent the ways that we identify as woman or man, gay or straight, are influenced by social and cultural forces normally understood as `outside' of the `self'. Indicative theoretical texts include works by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Leo Bersani, Gloría Anzaldua, Eve Sedgwick and Judith Butler.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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