Aspects of Gender in Literature II - ON2301020

• Title: Aspekty genderu v literatuře II
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Bernadette Higgins, M.A.

Annotation

English

Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.04.2009)

Building on the knowledge students gained from the course Aspekty genderu v literatuře I, this course will focus on a gender analysis of literature from the post-war period to the present day. The course will have a tri-partite structure: literature connected with important authors who wrote during the formative ?second wave? of feminism in the 60s ? 80s of the 20th century, including Adrienne Rich, Doris Lessing and Caryl Churchill, literature reflecting cultural and ethnic diversity, e.g. Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros and Alice Walker, and contemporary literature by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Kay. The course will also develop students? knowledge of contemporary currents in literary criticism and interpretation, including postmodern notions of gender, e.g. those of Judith Butler, Susan Bordo, Donna Haraway and Seyla Benhabib.

Czech

Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.04.2009)

Využívaje znalostí, jež studenti nabyli v kurzu Aspekty genderu v literatuře I, se tento kurz věnuje genderové analýze literatury od poloviny 20. století do současnosti. Zabývá se třemi celky: literaturou odrážející dopad tzv. ?druhé vlny? feminismu v 60. letech 20. století, včetně děl Adrienne Richové, Doris Lessingové a Caryl Churchillové, literaturou odrážející kulturní a etnickou rozmanitost, jakou představují např. Toni Morrisonová, Sandra Cisnerosová či Alice Walkerová, a současnou literaturou autorek jako Margaret Atwoodová, Jeanette Wintersonová a Jackie Kayová. Tento kurz také seznamuje studenty s formami a proudy literární kritiky a interpretace, věnujími pozornost zobrazování mužů a žen, pojetí maskulinity a feminity či sexuální politice, včetně postmoderních interpretací genderu, jaké nacházíme např. u Judith Butlerové, Susan Bordo či Seyly Benhabibové.

Literature

Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.04.2009)

BENHABIB, S.; BUTLER, J.; CORNEL, D.; FRASER, N. Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange. London: Routledge, 1996.

BOONER, F.; GOODMAN, L.; ALLEN, R.; JAMES, L,; KING, C. eds. Imagining Women - Cultural Representation and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.

BORDO, S.; JAGGAR, A. eds. Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. Rutgers University Press, 1989.

BUTLER, J. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity, London: Routledge, 1990.

CRANNY-FRANCIS, A. Engendered Fiction: Analysing Gender in the Production and Reception of Texts. NSWU Press, Sydney, 1992.

CROWLEY, H.; HIMMELWEIGHT, S. eds., Knowing Women - Feminism and Knowledge. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.

DOWSON, J. Women's Writing, 1945-1960, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

GILBERT, S.M.& GUBAR, S. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1984.

GILBERT, S.M. & GUBAR, S. Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2006.

HARAWAY, D. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York; Routledge, 1991.

HUMM, M., ed. Modern Feminisms. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.

JACKSON, S. Women's Studies - A Reader. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

KRISTEVA, J. The Kristeva Reader. Ed. Toril Moi. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

McDOWELL,L.; PRINGLE, R. eds., Defining Women - Social Institutions and Gender Divisions. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992.

MOI, T. Feminist Literary Theory, London: Methuen 1985.

MONTEFIORE, J. Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing. London: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora Press 2003

RADCLIFFE RICHARDS, J. The Sceptical Feminist. London: Penguin, 1991.

REES-JONES, D. Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2005.

SELDEN, R.; WIDDOWSON, P. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. 3rd edition, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993.

SHOWALTER, E. Speaking of Gender. London: Routledge,1983.

SHOWALTER, E. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing. Expanded and revised, London: Virago, 1991.

Syllabus

Last update: HIGGINS/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (18.01.2012)

Aspekty genderu v literature II

This semester’s focus is on literary texts, particularly as they relate to gender issues. There will be three thematic units of study: an historical overview of postwar writing, a focus on radical strategies from the "second wave" and an exploration of diversity. Fortunately we now have a class set of The Norton Anthology of Women Writers, which contains most of the literary texts we will be looking at during the course. All of the texts are short stories, some of them very short, apart from the Toni Morrison, which is longer. You will also be provided with some short very extracts from the secondary texts specified (the extracts are mainly from Modern Feminisms, ed. Maggie Humm) to provide background. Copies of all these secondary texts will be provided for you, mainly in photocopies and occasionally electronically.

UNIT ONE

Week 1.Sylvia Plath - selected poems

Week 2. Katherine Mansfield - The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Kate Chopin - The Story of an Hour

Week 3.   Tillie Olsen - I Stand Here Ironing, Fay Weldon - Weekend

Week 4. Doris Lessing - To Room 19

Secondary texts (short extracts)

Gilbert and Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic

Tillie Olsen - Silences

Betty Friedan -The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1,"The Problem that Has No Name"

UNIT TWO

Radical questions and creative responses from the second wave.

Week 5. Adrienne Rich - When We Dead Awaken, selected poems

Week 6. Doris Lessing - One Off the Short List and Alice Munro - Wild Swans

Week  7. Angela Carter - The Company of Wolves

Week 8. Margaret Atwood - Rape Fantasies, There Was Once

Secondary texts (extracts) Pat Mainardi - The Politics of Housework, Kate Millett - Sexual Politics, Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex, Valerie Solanas - The SCUM Manifesto

UNIT THREE

Diversity of voice. We shall look at the work of two leading African American authors.

Week 9. -  Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

Week 10. Toni Morrison - Sula

Week 11. Issues in feminist literary criticism

Secondary texts (short extracts)

Barbara Smith - Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Maggie Humm - Feminist Criticism

Angela Davis - Women, Race and Class

Credit requirements: Full attendance and, as the course is seminar based, full participation (this particularly includes the necessity of reading the texts each week!). You will also have to produce an end of term paper on one of the literary texts discussed.

Please contact me if you have any queries or problems about the course.

Bernie Higgins

Aspekty genderu v literature II
This semester’s focus is on literary texts, particularly as they relate to gender issues. There will be three thematic units of study: an historical overview of postwar writing, a focus on radical strategies from the "second wave" and an exploration of diversity. Fortunately we now have a class set of The Norton Anthology of Women Writers, which contains most of the literary texts we will be looking at during the course. All of the texts are short stories, some of them very short, apart from the Toni Morrison, which is longer. You will also be provided with some short very extracts from the secondary texts specified (the extracts are mainly from Modern Feminisms, ed. Maggie Humm) to provide background. Copies of all these secondary texts will be provided for you, mainly in photocopies and occasionally electronically.

UNIT ONE

Week 1. Sylvia Plath - selected poems Week 2. Katherine Mansfield - The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Kate Chopin - The Story of an Hour Week 3.   Tillie Olsen - I Stand Here Ironing, Fay Weldon - Weekend Week 4. Doris Lessing - To Room 19 Secondary texts (short extracts) Gilbert and Gubar - The Madwoman in the AtticTillie Olsen - Silences Betty Friedan -The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1,"The Problem that Has No Name"

UNIT TWO

Radical questions and creative responses from the second wave. Week 5. Adrienne Rich - When We Dead Awaken, selected poems Week 6. Doris Lessing - One Off the Short List and Alice Munro - Wild Swans Week  7. Angela Carter - The Company of Wolves Week 8. Margaret Atwood - Rape Fantasies, There Was OnceSecondary texts (extracts) Pat Mainardi - The Politics of Housework, Kate Millett - Sexual Politics, Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex, Valerie Solanas - The SCUM Manifesto

UNIT THREE

Diversity of voice. We shall look at the work of two leading African American authors. Week 9. -  Alice Walker - In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens Week 10. Toni Morrison - Sula Week 11. Issues in feminist literary criticism

Secondary texts (short extracts)Barbara Smith - Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Maggie Humm - Feminist CriticismAngela Davis - Women, Race and Class

Credit requirements: Full attendance and, as the course is seminar based, full participation (this particularly includes the necessity of reading the texts each week!). You will also have to produce an end of term paper on one of the literary texts discussed.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Ivana Jančovičová (20.05.2019)

Full attendance, an oral presentation at one of the seminars, the production of a paper based on your own research at the end of term. The course is seminar based and your full participation in debates will be encouraged.