An interdisciplinary exploration of a particular theme, area, or period, with respect to issues of women and gender.
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Fall Semester information
190A: Topics:Imagined Realities: Women's Utopian and Dystopian Narratives
This course explores utopian and dystopian narratives in literary and visual culture created by women writers and artists. Specifically, we will examine conventions of the each genre in poetry, short stories, novels, graphic novels, as well as painting, sculpture, and film. Course texts include Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Kelly Sue DeConnick's and Valentine De Landro's comic B*tch Planet, to name a few.