İDE221

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

In this course, students will analyze literary and theoretical texts written by women from different backgrounds and with different concerns. will read. The position of women writers in the literary world, the development of women's literature and also
new narrative techniques that women come up with to express their experiences are the main topics of the course between.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper; Kate Chopin's Awakening; Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

This course aims to teach students the importance of women's literature and to develop their thinking, questioning and interpretation skills.

1. To learn the emergence and development of women's writing
2. To comprehend the main problems in women's literature
3. Discovering important writers who paved the way for women's writing
4. Understanding the different language searches of women's writing

Week 1: General Introduction: Woman's Position in Western Society: Patriarchy, Woman as the Other, Mary Wollstonecraft, Waves of Feminism
Week 2: General Introduction: Woman's Position in Western Literature: Male Gaze, Objectification and Rebellion
Week 3: General Introduction 2: Female Gothic, Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex: From an Object into a Writing Subject
Week 4: Writing: Can women write? What challenges do women writers face? Are they really 'mad'? Chapters I and III from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper"
Week 5: Gender Roles: Are gender roles instinctual?; Excerpts from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
Week 6: Gender Roles 2: How do women rise against the constructed roles?; Kate Chopin's Awakening
Week 7: Race: Is feminism only for white middle-class women? How does black women's experience differ from white women's?; bell hooks' "Race and Gender" in Feminism is for Everybody; Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Week 8: Women Write Back in Post-structuralism: How to get free from the rules of patriarchy while language and discourse are intertwined with these rules? ;Excerpts from Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
Week 9: Is there a revolutionary way to re-write the patriarchal narratives by avoiding binaries?; Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" in Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Week 10: Language: What is écriture féminine? How can a woman discover her body and write from it while creating a language of her own?
Week 11: Helene Cixous' "The Laugh of Medusa"
Week 12: Leylâ Erbil "Mirror" in Night

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Participation 5 %
• Assignments 25 %