Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WOMEN IN CHINESE LITERATURE

Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines women's roles in Chinese literature as writers, readers, and characters, focusing particularly on the tension between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural experiences inscribed on the female body and how, in the process, women have contrarily gendered patriarchal culture into their own. It will also touch on Chinese women's incorporation of the Western Tradition. Cross-list: ASIA 399, MDST 379.