{"id":43126,"date":"2023-02-08T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=43126"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:25:00","slug":"anglophone-womens-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=43126&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Anglophone Women’s Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title<\/strong>: <\/strong>Anglophone Women\u2019s Writing
\nInstructor:<\/strong> Assoc. Prof. Martina Domines
\nECTS credits<\/strong>: <\/strong>6
\nStatus:<\/strong> elective
\nSemester<\/strong>: <\/strong>2nd<\/sup> and 4th<\/sup> semester
\nEnrollment requirements:<\/strong> enrollment in the 2nd<\/sup> and 4th<\/sup> semester<\/span><\/p>\n

Course description:<\/strong> The course offers an insight into feminist theories of the 2nd<\/sup> half of the 20th<\/sup> century to the present day on the examples of poetry and prose writing of important Anglophone women writers. The focus will be on the meaning and significance of patriarchy and the changes it brings in the private and public spheres of life. In the first part of the course we will talk about the politics of intimate life and the ethics of care and vulnerability, while in the second part we will focus on the social reproduction theory by reading representative working-class women\u2019s novels in order to understand the connection between economic exploitation and social vs. private oppression of women in the contemporary capitalist society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Objectives:<\/strong> To acquaint the students with the foundations of feminist literary theories and to show the role and evolution of patriarchy by using chosen works of Anglophone women writers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements:<\/strong> the final grade is based on continuous assessment<\/u> which includes regular attendance (max. absences allowed: 4), preparation for class, in-class participation, writing small assignments, obligatory sitting for midterm exam and timely submission of the final paper. The paper is worth 35%, midterm exam 40% and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 25% of the final grade. Students must fulfill all elements of continuous assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Women and literary history (excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf)
\nWeek 2: Introduction to feminist literary theories of the 20th and 21st centuries (excerpts from Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millett, Elaine Showalter, S. Gilbert & S. Gubar)
\nWeek 3: Patriarchy, nuclear family, motherhood: Virginia Woolf ‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927)
\nWeek 4: Woolf continued
\nWeek 5: Female body: Sylvia Plath ‘Ariel’ (1965); Louise Gl\u00fcck ‘ Descending Figure’ (1980) & Carol Ann Duffy ‘The World’s Wife’ (1999)
\nWeek 6: Canon re-inscription: Emma Donoghue ‘Kissing the Witch’ (1997)
\nWeek 7: Mid-term exam
\nWeek 8:  Feminism and social reproduction theory (chosen texts by Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser and Tithi Bhattacharya)
\nWeek 9:  Ethel Carnie Holdsworth \u2018This Slavery\u2019 (1925)
\nWeek 10: Holdsworth continued
\nWeek 11: Jeanette Winterson ‘Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit’ (1985)
\nWeek 12: Winterson continued
\nWeek 13: Kerry Hudson ‘Lowborn’ (2019)
\nWeek 14: Wrap-up discussion and instructions for seminar papers
\nWeek 15: End-term exam<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reading list:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Primary sources:<\/strong>
\nVirginia Woolf: \u2018To the Lighthouse\u2019 (1927)<\/span><\/p>\n

Zbirke poezije: Sylvia Plath ‘Ariel’ (1965); Louise Gl\u00fcck ‘Descending Figure’ (1980); Carol Ann Duffy ‘The World’s Wife’ (1999)<\/span><\/p>\n

Emma Donoghue \u2018Kissing the Witch\u2019 (1997)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth \u2018This Slavery\u2019 (1925)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeanette Winterson ‘Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit’ (1985)<\/span><\/p>\n

Kerry Hudson ‘Lowborn’ (2019)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Secondary sources:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Belsey, Catherine & Jane Moore. \u2018The Feminist Reader\u2019, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989<\/span><\/p>\n

Finke, Laurie A.. \u2018Feminist Theory, Women\u2019s Writing\u2019, Ithaca, London: Cornell UP, 1992<\/span><\/p>\n

Roberts, Helen (ed.). \u2018Doing Feminist Research\u2019, London, New York: Routledge, 1992<\/span><\/p>\n

Rooney, Ellen (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

De Beauvoir, Simone. \u2018The Second Sex\u2019, London: Vintage, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

Woolf, Virginia. \u2018A Room of One\u2019s Own\u2019, London: Penguin Books, 2000<\/span><\/p>\n

Butscher, Edward. \u2018Sylvia Plath: Method & Madness\u2019, Tucson: Schaffner Press, 2003<\/span><\/p>\n

Smyth, Ailbhe. \u2018Irish Women Studies Reader\u2019, Dublin: Ahic Press, 1993<\/span><\/p>\n

Russo, John & Sherry Lee Linkon (ed.) \u2018New Working-Class Studies\u2019, London: ILP Press, 2005<\/span><\/p>\n

Goodridge, John & Bridget Keegan (ed.) \u2018A History of British Working-Class Literature\u2019, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Bhattacharya, Tithi (ed.) \u2018 A Social Reproduction Theory\u2019, London: Pluto Press, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Aruzza, Cinzia, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser. \u2018Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto\u2019, London & New York: Verso, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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