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French Feminist Writing

Key information

  • Module code:

    6AAFF327

  • Level:

    6

  • Semester:

      Autumn

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

This module will examine late twentieth-century feminist writing from literary, philosophical, political and psychoanalytical perspectives. The first half of the course will focus on a ‘materialist’ feminism anchored in the socialisation process and its representation of various mediatic influences and social conventions. The second half will examine texts with a more linguistic and psychoanalytic emphasis. Overall, we shall look at feminist responses to the socio-political position of women in France and their critiques of Freudian psychoanalysis, capitalist economies and Western philosophy. Finally we shall examine the theory and practice of écriture féminine.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/french/modules/level6/6aaff327.aspx

Assessment details

Coursework

One 4000 word essay (100%) subject to approval

Teaching pattern

Two classes per week.

Department

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