eng3wwb women writing b
WOMEN WRITING B
ENG3WWB
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Credit points: 15
Subject outline
This subject is an exploration of ways that women have written about key areas of female experience during the turbulent and volatile twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We read a range of prose works that deal with fantasy and testimony, mass culture and consumerism, motherhood and daughterhood, sex and education, dystopia, revolution and war. Texts include racy bestsellers, literary novellas, a graphic novel, and a blog. The emphasis is on discovering new approaches to women's literary history, and students will be introduced to the practice of experimental critical writing.
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorLaura Carroll
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites 30 credit points of first-year English
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjects ENG2WWB
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | Baghdad burning: girl blog from Iraq, | Prescribed | Riverbend, | MARION BOYARS |
| Readings | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Prescribed | Loos, A | PENGUIN |
| Readings | Persepolis, | Prescribed | Satrapi, M. | PANTHEON |
| Readings | Swastika night, | Prescribed | Burdekin, K. | FEMINIST PRESS |
| Readings | The getting of wisdom, | Prescribed | Richardson, H. | N/A |
| Readings | The group, | Prescribed | McCarthy, M. | HARVESTER |
| Readings | The memoirs of a survivor, | Prescribed | Lessing, D. | KNOPF |
| Readings | The prime of Miss Jean Brodie, | Prescribed | Spark, M. | PENGUIN |
| Readings | A room of one's own and three guineas | Preliminary | Woolf, V. | WILLIAM COLLINS |
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