Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND WOMEN'S VOICES IN FRENCH LITERATURE **** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** Examination of the ways in which women have been represented in fiction, by themselves and by others, since the early modern period. Includes Mme. de Lafayette, Baudelaire, 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. ***** Also offered as FREN 460.