COL 249

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COL 249

Women, Sociability and Solitude COL 249 FA

Crosslistings: WMST249

Section	Class Size	*Available	Times
1	24	0	Times: .T.T... 10:00AM-11:20AM;

*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for the current phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration. (Last Updated on Wed Mar 4 05:01:03 EST 1998 )

Women have traditionally inhabited private space but have rarely been privileged with privacy. With difficulty have women enjoyed solitude, the experience of being unto oneself. Socialization, political pressures and women's own regard for relationships all have promoted the expression of sociability, being for others besides oneself. To gain a time and space for solitude has therefore involved women in fundamental questions about gender identity and the ethical values that gender helps define. This course seeks to understand how women have come to terms with the often conflicting values of sociability and solitude by examining the writings of women from the modern industrial era. During this period, the separation of home and workplace was ratified by the ideology of the proper bourgeois woman: the woman whose confinement to domestic "privacy" made her an agent of socialization and whose movement between private and public made her a vehicle of transgression. How women responded differently to this bourgeois ideal from within different classes and races, and different experiences of parental bonds, will receive special attention in this course about women intended for women and men.

MAJOR READINGS

Jane Austen, NORTHANGER ABBEY
Charlotte Bronte, JANE EYRE
Louisa May Alcott, LITTLE WOMEN and BEHIND A MASK
Emily Dickinson, THE COMPLETE POEMS and SELECTED LETTERS
Virginia Woolf, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE and selected essays
Jean Rhys, WIDE SARGASSO SEA
Nella Larsen, QUICKSAND and PASSING
Paule Marshall, BROWNGIRL, BROWNSTONES and PRAISESONG FOR
THE WIDOW

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Thoughtful preparation, dedicated participation in class discussion, two interpretive essays and one creative project.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA COL

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Weissman, H; Times: .T.T... 10:00AM-11:20AM;; Grading Mode: Mixed; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1; Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-03-1998

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