Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WOMEN AND WOMEN'S VOICES IN FRENCH LITERATURE

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 AND FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor

Description: Examination of the ways in which women have been represented in fiction, by themselves and by others, since the early modern period. Readings from Mme. de Lafayette, Graffingly, Baudelaire, Sand, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, de Beauvoir, Duras, and Wittig, with emphasis on the constitution of the "feminine" in literary texts as cultural, historical, and social artifact. Cross-list: FREN 460.