The course looks at women’s lives and reflects on what it means to be a woman and a feminist from various sexual, racial, class, and national perspectives. It also gives students an understanding of a variety of feminist theory, use of feminist theory in literary texts, and on the changing aspects of women’s writings over time, circumstances, and social/cultural contexts. The students will examine a variety of different genres; e.g. criticism, novel, poetry, short story, autobiography and attempt to understand the context and complexity a woman writer faces while writing. In this course, we seek to examine how inequalities of class/caste, race/ethnicity, community/religion, nation and sexuality intersect with gender to produce particular politics of visibility and invisibility.
