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  One Hundred Years of Herland: Reading Gilman and Piercy’s Feminist Utopias

Dozent/in
Yildiz Asar, M.A.

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Übung
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Nachhaltigkeit, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Do 16:00 - 19:15, U5/01.18; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: The course consists of regular and double sessions. The exact schedule will be announced in the first session (April 20).

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional reading tutorial (Übung) for LITERARY studies:
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
  • MA English and American Studies
  • MA WiPäd
  • Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
  • Studium Generale (2 or 4 ECTS - not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)
  • Exchange Students (2 or 4 ECTS)

>> OPEN for Consolidation Module LITERARY studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

3. FlexNow-Registration:

Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section (Lehrstuhl): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

  • Course (de)enrollment: March 1st – May 1st, 2023
  • ECTS (de)registration: June 1st – July 1st, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt
In 1915, as the globe lamented the biggest war that humankind had hitherto seen, the first monthly installment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland serial appeared in The Forerunner magazine. Herland, along with its prequel Moving the Mountain (1911) and sequel With Her in Ourland (1916), presented to its readers a fictional utopian society – composed entirely of women who lived in harmonious isolation without conflicts, and procreated without men. With its bold and progressive critique of traditional approaches to gender and procreative rights, Herland was discussed quite controversially at the time, but swiftly forgotten. It was not until the 1960s and 70s, that the oppositional political culture – shaped by the civil rights, feminist, and environmental movements – rediscovered Herland and occasioned a revival of feminist utopian writing more broadly, including a range of now-classic novels such as Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975), Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, (1976), Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground (1979), and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home (1985). Like Gilman’s much earlier novels, these feminist critical utopias imagined ambiguous female spaces in ways that also navigated early ecofeminist themes, such as “partnership with nature rather than domination, non-hierarchical cooperation as a social principle, abolition of antagonistic dualisms (like body and spirit), acceptance of change (including death), and an ethic of care” (Donawerth 62).

In this course, we will revisit the 20th-century feminist critical utopia with a focus on works by Gilman and Piercy, engaging intersectional, non-binary approaches to explore how issues of gender, race, age, class, species, ecology, etc. are addressed by these literary texts. It is from the perspective of contemporary, early 21st-century debates about social, ecological, and gender injustices, and in the attempt to develop a critical but optimistic reading practice, that we will discuss the cultural work performed by Gilman’s and Piercy’s novels in their respective historical contexts.

Empfohlene Literatur
Please acquire and start reading these texts BEFORE the beginning of our class!
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)
  • Marge Piercy, Women on the Edge of Time (1976)

Further primary readings will be announced here by mid-March.

Englischsprachige Informationen:
Title:
One Hundred Years of "Herland": Reading Gilman and Piercy’s Feminist Utopias

Credits: 2

Zusätzliche Informationen
Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25

Institution: Professur für Amerikanistik

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