SPAN 6840

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SPAN 6840
Excess: Gender and Embodiment in Theory and Fiction

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2021-2022.

This course provides graduate students with an overview of feminist and queer theories of gender and the body, as well as representations of the gender and the body in narrative fiction.  We will critical examine the "discursive turn"; in feminist theory as well as more recent challenges to this school of thought including new feminist materialism and critical disability studies.  We will also look at the ways in which gender is inflection by sexuality, race, caste, and class.

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18438 SPAN 6840   SEM 101

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    • W Online Meeting
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021

    • Chang, J

  • Instruction Mode: Online
    This is the mandatory seminar for 1st year Spanish graduate students.