SPAN 6840 - [Excess: Gender and Embodiment in Theory and Fiction]

Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.

J. Chang.

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.