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ENGL 21008 - Gender, Sex, and Texts, 350-1500

Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, WGSS)
This course explores the cultural configurations of gender and sexuality as represented in various kinds of writings and cultural productions (literature, philosophy, biography, legal documents, medical writings, and the visual arts) from the Middle Ages. By interrogating the assumptions that colored the representations of the feminine in the medieval period, the course sets the stage for exploring what women of the period (such as Marie de France and Heloise) seemed to be saying when they responded to these assumptions. [Before 1800] [AH]