WOMS 510
Gender and the Culture of War
| Time & Place | Fall 2008 Thursdays 3:25 - 6:20 pm HUM 384 |
| Course Description | This upper division, undergraduate course (ENGL 214 pre-requisite) is designed to analyze the gendering of war and state violence in a cultural context. Using historical, theoretical, fictional, and cultural texts, students will discuss the political, cultural and ideological configurations of war as a masculine pursuit in conjunction with case studies of men and women's involvement in different violent conflicts. Topics will include the gender of nationalism and imperialism, intersections of race, gender, sexuality and nation in representations of violent conflict, the relation of fiction to ideologies of war, gendered representations of the military in the media, and the role of sexuality in constructions of nationalism and violence. |
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