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DATOS IDENTIFICATIVOS 2011_12
Asignatura ESTUDIO GENERO Y LITERA. LENGUA INGLESA Código 00408125
Enseñanza
LIC. EN FILOLOGIA INGLESA
Descriptores Cr.totales Tipo Curso Semestre
6 Optativa Tercero Segundo
Idioma
Prerrequisitos
Departamento FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Responsable
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ , MARTA SOFÍA
Correo-e mslopr@unileon.es
imarj@unileon.es
Profesores/as
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ , MARTA SOFÍA
MARTÍN JUNQUERA , IMELDA
Web http://
Descripción general This course is designed to introduce students to gender studies, in order to make them understand that gender can be a significant category of analysis. From the Middel Ages to the 21st century, the students will be familiarized with the construction of gender identity and sexuality in the English culture through language. We will discuss gendered representations in the arts, specifically, literature and cinema, in relation to feminist criticism and related theoretical approaches. The course is divided in 5 parts, from the most classical criticism, to the most contemporary. "
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Objetivos
This course is designed to introduce students to gender studies, in order to make them understand that gender can be a significant category of analysis. From the Middel Ages to the 21st century, the students will be familiarized with the construction of gender identity and sexuality in the English culture through language. We will discuss gendered representations in the arts, specifically, literature and cinema, in relation to feminist criticism and related theoretical approaches. The course is divided in 5 parts, from the most classical criticism, to the most contemporary. "

Metodologías
The course will combine theoretical introductions to the different periods and authors with active discussion of specific texts. "

Contenidos
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"PART I: The Roots Introduction to Gender theory Christine de Pisan “The Book of the City of Ladies”; Aphra Behn Preface to The Lucky Chance. Mary Wollstonecraft “Vindication of the Rights of Women” Margaret Fuller and the Declaration of Sentiments George Eliot “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft” and “Silly Novels..” Virginia Woolf from “A Room of One’s Own” Part II: Domestic space and the woman Simone de Beauvoir from The Second Sex Kate Chopin The Awakening Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Why I wrote the yellow Wall Paper” Excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Doris Lessing “To Room 19” Part III: The Male Gaze: Laura Mulvey “ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Part IV Feminist theory in action: from classical feminism to Third Wave Feminism Kate Millet “Theory of Sexual Politics” Juliet Mitchell “Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Feminism” Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar from The Madwoman in the Attic Luce Irigaray “The Sex which is not One” Helène Cixous “The Laugh of the Medusa” Toni Morrison “The Afro-American presence in American Literature” Bell hooks “Postmodern blackness”

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"Course Grades Class Participation 20% (attendance, assignments, participation in the discussion) Oral Presentations 20% Paper 20% Final Examination 40% The final paper has to be submitted on the last day of classes and the topic has to be discussed with and approved by the instructor. It will be 5 pages long (times 12, double space). " "

Fuentes de información
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Básica

Primary Sources:

Emily Dickinson’s poems.

Excerpts from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

Silvia Plath. Poems

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

Nella Larsen’s Passing 

Part V: Beyond the Sexual binarism: Lesbian feminism, queer studies and cyberfeminism.

Judith Butler “Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen’s  Psychoanalytic Challenge”

Monique Wittig “One is not born a Woman”

Gloria Anzaldúa “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New mestiza”Donna Haraway: A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980’s

Ursula K. Leguin “ Is Gender necessary? Redux

Blade Runner

All the readings are included in the Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader (2007) Except for the poems and the novels and Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, which is available online, as well as the poems. The professor will provide copies of the selected excerpts from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Virginian Woolf’s Dalloway and Doris Lessing’s “To Room 19”.

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