Cirrus@Austlit

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.