WGS 351 - Authorizing Women’s Sexualities

This course explores how 21st century women (trans and cis) in both the US and abroad use fiction, memoir, and other literary forms to resist, revise, and even reinvent heterosexist narratives about gender identity, love, sexuality, marriage and family life. How might writers use literary forms to author (and authorize) diverse ideas about women’s sexualities? Multiple lenses will be used to address this question-from the interpretative practices of narrative theory to the questions that arise from gender, feminist and queer theories, to research on publishing and the literary marketplace. Students cannot receive credit for WGS 451 after passing WGS/WST 401 with a topic of Women’s Sexuality.

Prerequisites: Junior Standing; WGS 101 or CHF 351 or permission.

Course Typically Offered: Variable

Credits: 3