WGSS 403
Senior Seminar: Image, Violence, and the Feminine Fall 2015
Division II
Cross-listed RLSP 403
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Violence is universal, and the potential for its eruption haunts all spaces—public and private. What is the nature of violence against women in particular, and how have women mobilized themselves against physical, psychological, and political assault through writing and subversive action? In this course we will critically examine gender by setting beauty, wife and motherhood within and against the realms of work, sexuality, and politics. From Golden Age Spain to dictatorial Argentina and the contemporary U.S.-Mexico border, we will trace how themes of honor, power, and desire repeatedly constitute themselves through images of the female body. Readings will include works by Maria de Zayas, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Ana Lydia Vega, Alejandra Pizarnik, Luisa Valenzuela, Alicia Partnoy, Sergio González Rodríguez, Roberto Bolaño, and Carmen Boullosa, among others. Theoretical readings by such thinkers as Jacques Lacan and Jean-Luc Nancy will explore feminism, violence, and the gaze. Students will engage foundational concepts within gender studies and feminism in order to articulate critiques of violence through analysis of Hispanic culture, literature, and film. Conducted in Spanish; non-Spanish majors welcome with permission of instructor.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 14
Expected: 14
Class#: 1993
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: three essays, short critical reflections, oral presentation, active discussion
Prerequisites: one 300 level Spanish course or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: senior Spanish majors
Distributions: Division II
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under RSLP; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under WGSS
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
RLSP 403 Division I WGSS 403 Division II
Attributes: LATS Countries of Origin + Transnationalism Elect

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