WGS-228 Feminism in Film & Fiction
Explores feminist ideas and the fight for gender equality, primarily through fiction and visual texts - with a focus on 1945 to the present, but with a continual interrogation of how our present day situation connects to the history of women, gender, and sexuality, to intersections of gender, race, and queerness, and to women's fight for equality since 1800. Texts will include novels and utopian fiction, poetry, memoir and essays, as well as a wide range of visual culture and criticism: film and television, comics, feminist art, including works by Barbara Kruger and the Guerilla Girls, as well as monuments and memorials, and recent debates of how (and whether to remember the fight for women's suffrage, and more.