Subject Code: HS6L002 Subject Name: Literature and Gender Theory L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3

Pre-Requisite(s): None

Syllabus:

Literary and theoretical texts with gender as the central category of analysis- Role of gender in individual, societal and collective lives-Patriarchy; Gender Identity; Performativity; History of Anglo-American Feminism; Key Debates in Feminist Theory; Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler; Sexual Division of Labour; Feminist Theory and Literature; Works of Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin; Gender, Class, and Race; Masculinity Studies; R. W. Connell’s Masculinities; Hegemony, Subordination, Complicity, Marginalization, Historical Dynamics, Violence and Crisis Tendencies; Masculinity and Literature; Works of George Orwell, Katherine Mansfield, and John Osborne; Intersectionality; Gender and Body Studies; Identity, Nation, Health, and Age among others; Socio-cultural constructions of gender.



Text/Reference Books:
  1. Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. 1949. Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Vintage Books, 2011.
  2. Bordo, Susan R. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. U of California P, 1993.
  3. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990.
  4. Connell, Raewyn. Masculinities. Polity, 1995.
  5. Eagleton, Mary. Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
  6. Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Pantheon Books, 1978.
  7. Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Yale UP, 1979.
  8. Goodman, Lizbeth. Literature and Gender. Routledge, 1996.
  9. Hooks, bell., Feminist Theory from Margins to Centre. South End P, 1983.