Description
A study of representations of women will focus on transnational and multicultural literature by both male and female writers, with particular attention to the relationship between the traditional roles of women, female stereotypes, and the dilemmas women and women writers have encountered in search of their own identities and places. By juxtaposing male ideas of woman with women?s struggles as individual selves, students will examine how a traditionally male-centered and masculinist culture and literature could be re-envisioned.