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COLT 360 - Gender and Identity in Literature

Instructor: Anna Kovalchuk

Term: Spring 2017

Reproducing the Future: Gender and Utopia

In this course, we will investigate narrative projections of ideal state structures and the engendered notions of citizenship and belonging that arise. As utopian and dystopian literature reimagines the martial power of the world, these narrative projections also reimagine the possibilities and limitation of marital structures, gendered belonging, and productive and reproductive norms. We will consider how utopian experiments and dystopian warnings illuminate the categories of sex, gender, and race, as well as familial and political structures, and reproductive politics.

Satisfies General Education Requirements:

  • Group-Satisfying: Arts and Letters
  • Multicultural Courses: Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance (IP)