ENGL 4116

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ENGL 4116
Inventing Women in the Middle Ages

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How was the category "woman" constituted in the Middle Ages? Not assuming that women were the same then as now, this course, in dialogue with contemporary trans and genderqueer theory, will look at medieval gender in a new light. Considering works by women, like the Book of Margery Kempe, some primary texts about women, like the trial of Joan of Arc, and some scholarship about alternatives to the binary of women and men, like Leah DeVun's The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, this course will examine "woman" as a constructed category and "The Middle Ages" as one instance of the long work of making involved in issuing women into the common-sense category that they now occupy.


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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 6116, FGSS 4116

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6351 ENGL 4116   SEM 101

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    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Raskolnikov, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6352 ENGL 4116   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies