Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 102374

Coordinator Jennifer Breukelaar Opens in new window

Description This subject focuses on the study of women's writing from a broad social and cultural context. While the women writers will change from offering to offering, the content will remain centred on feminist theory and discourses of race, ethnicity, class and gender. The subject will draw on a variety of genres including drama, fiction, poetry, essay and short story. Students will explore women's concerns about motherhood, marriage, violence and domesticity; cultural identity, vocation and the body as (sexual) object. They will also explore women's experiences of madness and victimisation; segregation and alienation; power/lessness and the public sphere.

School Humanities & Comm Arts

Discipline Literature

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 1 10cp

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Level Undergraduate Level 3 subject

Restrictions

Successful completion of 60 credit points in currently enrolled program.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge and appreciation of women's writing from across various social and cultural contexts, including the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia
2. Identify and analyse the generic features and thematic concerns of women's literature
3. Critically assess the extent to which race, ethnicity, class and gender factor into women's creative spaces and practices
4. Apply feminist literary criticism to a reading of the subject's primary texts
5. Conduct independent scholarly research to build on primary knowledge of women's literature
6. Prepare and write well-analysed critical literary essays.

Subject Content

- Women's writing from Australia, New Zealand, U.S., South America, Britain, Europe and Asia
- The changing Roles of women from specific Histories and contexts
- Feminist theory and literary criticism
- Women's rights and social movements
- Migration, diaspora and women's identity
- Critical discourses of race, ethnicity, class and gender
- Women's concerns about motherhood, marriage, violence and domesticity; cultural identity, vocation and the body as (sexual) object
- Women's experiences of madness and victimisation, segregation and alienation, power/lessness and the public sphere