GERM 5800 - Gender Studies: German

Goals: Critically to encounter, in English translation, various visual and literary representations of gender, both dichotomous and nondichotomous, in German-speaking lands since the twelfth century.

Content: Selected readings in English translation (and in German for majors and minors) of German literary and visual texts such as the mystics, Frau von Stein, the fairy tales, the Romantics, the psychoanalysts, the urnings, the communists, the National-Socialists, Bettina, Rahel Levin, and Magnus Hirschfeld; current research and theories about race, disease, sexuality, and otherness.

Taught: Alternate years.

Prerequisites for non-Germanists: None. Recommended prerequisite for Germanists: GERM 3220 or equivalent.

Credits: 4 credits