FREN 4456

French Feminisms

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

Feminism has a long history in France, from the work of Christine de Pizan (1364-1431), which instigated the centuries-long discussion of women's right and women's status known as the Querelle des femmes (the Quarrel about women), through Louise Labe and Marie de Gournay in the sixteenth century and Olympe de Gouges in the eighteenth, to modern and postmodern feminist such as Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, and more recently, Mona Chollet. The work of these authors will be seen in the light of premodern and modernmisogyny, witchcraf theory, queer theory, (Foucault and Judith Butler) and political theory (theories of sovereignty from Jean Bodin to the present. This course will be conducted in French.

Prerequisites A course at the 3000 level conducted in French, or permission of the instructor.

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