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WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (L77)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2017
L77 WGSS 214CGender and Texts: Treating Disabilities: Writings on Women and Men with Different Impairments3.0 Units
Description:Images of disability abound in literature, yet they are most often employed as artistic embellishments, providing a setting for the actions of able main characters or an atmospheric backdrop. Recently, however, there has been a growing awareness that similar to the category of gender, the concept of disability is less a biological fact than a cultural construct and that its representation deserves exploration. Questions arise as to how these changes and shifts in the understanding of disability are represented in literature across cultures? How do texts talk about women with disabilities in comparison to men with disabilities? What are the intersections of disability and gender and how can they be usefully employed in critical thinking and analysis? This course will explore these questions by looking at both, women and men with bodily or mental impairments as they appear in various genres and across cultures from the nineteenth century to the present. After a brief introduction to the concepts of disability studies, we will read a wide range of texts going from the Grimm's fairy tales over 19th century fiction for girls to Virginia Woolfe's Mrs Dalloway and J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man. In our readings we will focus on depictions of disabilities as they are related to gender, identity, ethnicity, religion, class, and language. Accompanying materials will include the writings of Lennard J. Davis, Michel Foucault and Rosemary Garland-Thompson. Analyzing the literary texts in their socio-historical settings and against the background of disability and gender studies, we will seek insights into the way disability is constituted by and treated in specific cultures, historical periods, and societies.
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Annually / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01-T-R---1:00P-2:30PSeigle / 210 NowickiMay 9 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM2090
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