Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS: THIRD WAVE FEMINIST CULTURES ***** 20th Century American and British Women Writers: Lesbian Literature: Many of the greatest women writers, such as Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, H.D., and Adrienne Rich, are equally famous for their love of other women. This course surveys lesbian literature of Britain and America in the 20th century, including a few works written by men about lesbians. Beginning with the emergence of "sapphism" around 1900, continuing through the literature of "sexual inversion" to the "lesbian feminism" of the 1970's and the "postlesbianism" of the 1990s, we will examine the different ways that female homoeroticism has been conceived and represented. ***** Also offered as WGST 327. Repeatable for Credit.